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Excerpt from A Narrative of the Last Illness of the Right Honourable the Earl of Orford: From May 1744, to the Day of His Decease, March the Eighteenth Following
The Dead was ever, everr a mongfi the moft uncivilized Na tions, efieemed an indifpenfable Obligation, and a Sort of a far Cred Duty. And a Man; that could tranfgreie in this efientiai Point, was look'd upon as capa ble of Violating his Father's Afhes, and committing the molt excreta ble Enormity, 'tis in Confequence of a folemn Injunction of this Na ture, that I have penned the fol lowing Narrative the illufirious Perfonage, who is the melancholy Subject (if it, having, in his dw.
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