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Walpole and Chatham (1714-1760)

Note 22 — SMOLLETT'S CHARACTER OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.[22]

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This scene is, of course, fiction, but it was published only three years after Newcastle's death, and that it is absolutely true to life every student of the period admits.

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