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Tost attrappe est le souris, qui n'a pour tout qu'vn pertuis.
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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Immediately upon his AccefSon, he wrote to RoUinand and Voltaire that he defired the Con - tinuance of their Friendfhip, and feht for Mr. MaUf pertuis the Principal of the French Academicians who paffed a Winter in Lapland to verify, by the Menfu* ration of a Degree near the Pole, the Newtonian Doftrine of the Form of the Earth.
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