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Excerpt from The Lives of All the Earls and Dukes of Devonshire: Descended From the Renowned Sir William Cavendish, One of the Privy Counsellors to King Henry VIII.; Illustrated With Reflections and Observations on the Most Striking Passages in Each Life
Of this we cannot defire a fironger inftance, than the truly illullrious Family We have here undertaken to give an account of, which can vie with the nobleit in this Kingdom for antiquity; and, what is far more to their honour, can be paralleled by few, for thofe virtues which dignify human nature.
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