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CENTURY OF ANECDOTE

FROM 1760 TO 1860.

BY JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.

AUTHOR OF

66 ANECDOTE BIOGRAPHY,"
""LIVES OF WITS AND HUMOURISTS,"

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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CHURCHILL'S SAMARITANISM

THREE POETS-CHURCHILL, LLOYD, AND BYRON

THE CURSE IN "TRISTRAM SHANDY."-STERNE'S DEATH

THEORIZING

THE WITTINAGEMOT AT THE CHAPTER COFFEE-HOUSE

GEORGE III. AND JOSEPH LANCASTER

A MISDELIVERED LETTER

USE AND ORNAMENT

MADAME DE STAEL'S FENCING

LADY HESTER STANHOPE'S EXTRAVAGANCES

SYDNEY SMITH, AND HIS EDINBURGH FRIENDS

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