Baron Mountenay's celebrated Dedication of the Select Orations of Demosthenes, to the late Sir Robert Walpole, Bart. Of Ministerial Memory. Done into Plain English, and illustrated with Notes and Comments, and dedicated to Trinity-College, Dublin. By AEschines the Third
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Dublin Printed, London Reprinted: And Sold by R. Griffiths, Bookseller at the Dunciad in Ludgate-Street, 1748. 8vo (in 4s), 198 x 124 mms., pp. [5] 6 - 23 [24 blank], xxii, incljuding half-title, disbound; stain at top of half-title and title-page, ex-library (Mercantile Library), with two library stamps in red. First published in Latin as Demosthenis selectæ Orationes by Cambridge in 1731, reprinted and translated into English in 1748, this weak satire on Walpole nevertheless achieved several reprints in the 18th century, as well as many in the 19th century. Mounteney (1707 - 1768) was at university with Sir Edward Walpole, the younger son of Sir Robert Walpole.
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- Baron Mountenay's celebrated Dedication of the Select Orations of Demosthenes, to the late Sir Robert Walpole, Bart. Of Ministerial Memory. Done into Plain English, and illustrated with Notes and Comments, and dedicated to Trinity-College, Dublin. By AEschines the Third
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- Dublin Printed, London Reprinted: And Sold by R. Griffiths, Bookseller at the Dunciad in Ludgate-Street, 1748
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