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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 324

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historians, presents adaub in which it is difficult to recognise the true features. So manyskilful artists have been employed upon the task, that we hesitate insubmitting Mithridates to a fresh canvassing at our hands ; nor are wedesirous of using the pencil, as some have done, for the purpose… … *88 COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. [CHAP. XXVII. for the purpose of glossing over the defects of his character. All areready to admit that he was an able ruler; but he had not that perfectuprightness and straightness which give to a ruler the qualities most tobe desired. He could speak twenty-five…

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