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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ...Your piant 4-will use her endeavours to make lord Bacon a liar, and instead of adding two inches to her The bishop of Ossory so called. Could you see his grin, for a pound to a penny, You'd swear it must fye the baboon of Killkenny. See Swift's Poem on the Bishops. H. + Miss Rice, an exceeding tall young lady, and niece to my lordHowth. D. S, height height, would be very well satisfied to part with four. I am very sorry Mrs. Acheson is so much out of order; she is one I have a great regard for; and shall desire the favour of you to give my wife's service and mine to her, and lady Acheson, when you see them. I thank God my family and I are very well. Sometime this summer I design drinking Ballispellin waters for a month. As for news we have no such thing here: only the baboon has done his visitation; that is, he goes into the churches and looks about, then asks the tumbler Sikes how long they have been coming? So long, says Sykes. Ay, replies the baboon, and we shall be as long going back: so mounts his horse and away. Who durst say the church is in danger when we have so good bishops? My wife and all here join in their kind service to the drapier. I am, good Mr. Dean, your most assured and affectionate humble servant, HOWTH. ' TO MR. ALDERMAN BARBER. DUBLIN, ' DEAR MR. ALDERMAN, JULY 12, 1735-JL WRITE to you at the command of a gentleman, for whom I have a perfect friendship and esteem, and the request he desires me to make, appears to me altogether reasonable. The gentleman I mean is doctor Helsham, the most eminent physician of this city and kingdom. There is a person of qua lity, an intimate friend of the doctors, my lord Tyrone, formerly sir Tristram Beresford, who is a tenant to the Londonderry society. His lordship is going to build two...
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