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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 264

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h lurked at the root of everything hisgarden contained, and it is probable that he sent many a present ofputative mushrooms to his unsuspecting kindred. So odious had hebecome, that it is said he would have been murdered, if he had not dieda little too soon for the arrangements of the assassins to… … Arrest of Eunus. will, so short, that it purported to say in four letters all he desiredHis last testament was comprised in the characters P. R. H. E.;and all his property was supposed to be represented in this smallcollection of capitals. The Romans affecting to be initiated in themeaning of these…

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