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PREFACE.
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historian, in the gloomy portrait which he draws of the nation, at the beginning of his work, alludes very strongly to a late dangerous crisis, when the kingdom was torn with party feuds and animosities, and when some of the greatest people risqued their own properties without any concern, to enjoy the malevolent satisfaction of injuring other people.———The character of the future Duke of Bedford, will easily lead us to think of a nobleman of the present times, who has headed an opposition to the government of his King; and the parliamentary proceedings in the reign of George the sixth, may be considered as a well turned compliment to the legislature of George the third.
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