Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.
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The author of Amelia' Fielding, the most singular genius which their island ever produced, whose works it has long been the fashion to abuse in public and to read in secret.
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