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NHG-P.760.046
10 Oct 1760:21,22,31,32 (210)
There has lately been publish'd in London, A Letter
addressed to Two Great Men, from which many extracts have
been made in diverse public papers, as well in England as
America. The publisher of the Gentleman's Magazine, who has
taken a part of this letter, and seems much to regret, that
the nature of his miscellaneous publications would not admit
of his publishing the whole, says the author of the letter
was a most able and spirited writer, and the two great men
are supposed to be the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Pitt. A
copy of this letter falling into our hands, and so well
meriting a perusal, we shall not, as we publish it purely
for the emolument of our readers, make any apology for so
doing ; but give them the whole of the letter, in this and
some succeeding Gazette.
A Letter Addressed to Two Great Men on the Prospect of
Peace, and the Terms necessary to be insisted on in the
Negotiation.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now a float,
and we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
Shakesp.
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