Front matter
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RANK AND TALENT; A NOVEL.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “TRUCKLEBOROUGH-HALL.”
When once he’s made a Lord, Who’ll be so saucy as to think he can Be impotent in wisdom? Cook.
Why, Sir, ’tis neither satire nor moral, but the mere passage of an history; yet there are a sort of discontented creatures, that bear a stingless envy to great ones, and these will wrest the doings of any man to their base malicious appliment.
Marston.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1829.