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his trouble. I desir'd on account of him, which he promis'd to
give me, but has not yet. I shall go to him tomorrow or next
day. — You acquaint me of surprizing Revolutions indeed in
your Empire; they will be effected I suppose by the time I
get home — Dr Blakistone reads for the last time on the 17th
of this Month - I am very glad you are likely to make the House
at Queen's Square your own; since you were so kind as to express
a satisfaction in it on my account, I will own, I always thought
we should be "Felices nimium, propria haec si dona fuissent." the
taking in of a Room of Mr Leech's would make a pretty addition
to it. there has been another Sale here, at which I have bought
2 or 3 books - the Memories of Philip de Comines, an French historian of
great authority, whom if you are not acquainted with, Mr Clarke
will give you an account of. he has got it in English, & it was
on his credit in great measure that I bought it. 2 Vols. 3. also Tournefort's
Voyages to the Levant 3 large Octavo Vols 10. 6. with many
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