Excerpt from St. Stephen’s, or Pencillings of Politicians
N ine tenths of the parties who figure in the fol lowing Sketches ought to be exceedingly obliged to me for having taken up the pencil of a historical portrait painter; for it is highly probable that by my aid, and by my aid only, will the good people who may happen to exist some hundred years hence have an inkling that such persons ever lived upon the earth.
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