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Being a Collection of Remarkable Characters, with Eccentric Sketches of their Lives, also including the Curiosities of Nature and Art, from the remotest period to the present time, drawn from every authentic source, to afford amusement and information, to gratify curiosity, or to excite interest and astonishment, equally in the palace as the cottage.

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References to the Originals, from whom the Sentences are extracted.

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