The epistles of Phalaris translated into English from the original Greek by S. Whately ... ; to which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the epistles of Phalaris ; together with an appendix of some other epistles lately discovered in a French ms.
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The epistles of Phalaris translated into English from the original Greek by S. Whately ... ; to which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the epistles of Phalaris ; together with an appendix of some other epistles lately discovered in a French ms.
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Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C.
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London :: Printed by Fr. Leach ... for the author,
1699.
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"The epistles of Phalaris translated into English from the original Greek by S. Whately ... ; to which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the epistles of Phalaris ; together with an appendix of some other epistles lately discovered in a French ms." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54647.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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To Mr Urbain.
THou Feeble creature! Dost thou
know what thou dost? Wouldest
thou have dared to look me in the Face,
had it not been for the Courage which thou
tookest up at the Shops? That ever Tay∣lor
and Sempstress should so Abuse a Man!
Or have the Fumes of my Lords Table
perfectly poisoned thy Intellect? Hast
thou quite forgot both what I am, and
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what Thou art? The very self same on
both sides as before the Taylor made the
Difference. I have read your Letter,
but am otherwise Employed than to An∣swer
it. In short, let me hear no more of
you. I am what I have always been, and
what that is you know.
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