Extracts from Voltaire, 1760, and from Hume on English history
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Extracts from Voltaire, 1760, and from Hume on English history
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Extracts from Voltaire, 1760, and from David Hume on English history.
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Comprises notes on salient events in mainly English history from Ethelred to Queen Anne, extracted from a translation of Voltaire’s writings, with notes on China and Charlemagne’s time on f.1, followed on ff.16-17 by similar notes extracted from David Hume’s writings on some selected events from Richard III’s days to those of James II.
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Ff.1v, 9v-11v, and 19v-91 are blank, and ff.18r-19r have only a ruled line drawn on them.
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A note in blue pencil reading ‘Destory’ has been written on f.1r.
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