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Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 187 — APPENDIX,

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When he was once enumerating the honours he had received from the different princes of Europe, and the orders with which he had been dignified by innumerable sovereigns, a gentleman present remarked that he had not named the King of Prussia; and added, "I suppose, sir, he never gave you any order?" "You are mistaken, sir," replied the Chevalier: "he gave me a very peremptory order to quit his dominions."

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