A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Huntingdon ...: Accompanied with Biographical Notices of Eminent and Learned Men to Whom this County Has Given Birth ... |
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Page 377 - I did tell him, you must get men of a spirit. And take it not ill what I say (I know you will not) of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go, or else I am sure you will be beaten still ; I told him so, I did truly.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Huntingdon ...: Accompanied with Biographical Notices of Eminent and Learned Men to Whom this County Has Given Birth ... |
| Author | Edward Wedlake Brayley |
| Publisher | Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1808 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 250 pages |
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