BRITISH NOVELISTS;

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BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL,

BY

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"When my occasions took me into France, towards the close of the late reign, the clergy, under all their forms, engaged a considerable part of my curiosity.

"They seemed to me, beyond the clerical character, liberal and open; with the hearts of gentlemen, and men of honour. They seemed to me rather a superior class; a sort of men, amongst whom you would not be surprised to find a Fenelon."

BURKE.

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