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Synopsis
Excerpt from Sketches of Public Characters: Drawn From the Living and the Dead; With Notices of Other Matters
They say that you never think of a man, howe ver great his virtues, and his talents, when he is out of Office; that sometimes, at the death of some one who has filled a considerable space in the world, your gazettes praise him today, and this is curtailed in to-morrow's paper and by the time the next edition of an American Bi. Ographical Dictionary is printed, he appears in a at, chalky picture, talf acolumn, as grace. Less as his epitaph, in some country church. Yard, where his bones may rest and this, per haps, a character whose lights and shades, pro perly disposed of, might have been made a splen. Did portrait.
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