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 One of a hundred a year, or so, is all I wish—I would not be at the plague of paying land tax for a larger.

those who call vexations,, as knowing what they are, there could not be a greater, than to be the best part of a day in Lyons, the most opulent and flourishing city in France, enriched with the most fragments of antiquity—and not be able to see it. To be withheld upon any account, must be a vexation; but to be witheld by a vexationmust certainly be, what philosophy justly calls