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Works, Vol. V., quarto edition, (London, F., C., & J. Rivington, 1812,)—Vol. IV. of that edition (London, F. & C. Rivington, 1802) being the first posthumous volume,—and Vols. I., II., and III. (London, J. Dodsley, 1792) comprising the collection published during the lifetime of Mr. Burke.

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Prefixed to the first volume, in the other editions. For the account referred to, see, in the present edition, Vol. I., pp. xiii., xiv.

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Page 86 of the present edition.

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In this edition, p. 91, near the top.

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In the fourth volume of the present edition.

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The quarto edition,—extending as far as Book II. ch. 2, near the middle of the paragraph commencing, "The same regard to the welfare of the people," &c.

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This design the editor did not live to execute.

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The Rev. J.J. Talman.

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Here I have fallen into an unintentional mistake. Rider's Almanack for 1794 lay before me; and, in troth, I then had no other. For variety, that sage astrologer has made some small changes on the weather side of 1795; but the caution is the same on the opposite page of instruction.

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Souverains opprimés.—See the whole proceeding in the Procès-Verbal of the National Assembly.

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Hic auratis volitans argenteus anser

Porticibus GALLOS in limine adesse canebat.