Excerpt from The Life of Sidney, Earl of Godolphin, K. G: Lord High Treasurer of England, 1702 to 1710
IN some books, and especially in old ones, it is the custom to place in a frontispiece a portrait of the person whose life is to come under the notice of the reader. We shall attempt here, in some sort, to follow a fashion which has much to recommend it, only employing the pen instead of the pencil.
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