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;

SPECIMENS

OF

ENGLISH PROSE - WRITERS,

STOR

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE CLOSE OF

THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY,

WITH

SKETCHES BIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY

INCLUDING

AN ACCOUNT OF Books,

AS WELL AS OF THEIR AUTHORS:

NEW-YORK.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN BUMPUS, NEAR THE GATE,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE,

By Hamblin and Seyfang, Garlick Hill, Thames-street.

1813.

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