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A Letter From a Gentleman in Transilvania to his Friend in America - Title Page

A
LETTER
From a GENTLEMAN
IN
TRANSILVANIA

To his Friend in America giving some Account of the late disturbances that have happen’d in that Government, with some Remarks upon the political revolutions in the Magistracy, and the Debates that happened about the change.

Humbly inscribed to Counsellor QUONDAM

By his Friend
ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, of the Middle Temple,

Hail, happy Pope! whose gen’rous mind
Detesting all the Statesmen kind;
A Genius for all stations fit,
Whose meanest Talent is his wit;
His Heart too great, though fortune little,
To lick a rascal Statesman’s spittle,
Appealing to the Nations taste,
Above the reach of want is plac’d.
SWIFT.          

NEW-YORK, Printed in the Year 1764.

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