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“We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Letter to William Strahan, 1745.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 13eb60f8557ca68f6673498c4a3e655e39bf64aead62fd938b33b9f356d04748
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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