Excerpt from British and Irish Public Characters of 1798: Memoirs of the Following Personages, Are Given in This Volume: Earl of Moira, Sir John Sinclair, Mr. Roscoe, Earl of Liverpool, Mr. A Newland, Mr. Fox, Mr. Pitt, Dr. Darwin, Lord Hood, Sir G. L. Staunton, Mr. T. Taylor, General Melville, Bishop of London
Many of the attractions of Biographysin general, and fome additional advantages, are polleffed by confempomm sgmp/zy. The memoirs of men, who are the prefent actors on the great theatre of life, who acquire and demand public confidence, and from whom further refults Of action or meditation are to be expeé'ted,' neceflarily excite a higher dew gree Of curiofity, than the lives of thofe who have made their ex1t from the flage, by Whom no future good or evil can be per formed or perpetrated, and who, dead, gone, and forgotten, are generally carried down the firearm of Oblivion, and fwal lowed up in the gulph Of unregifiered morw tality.
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