LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Laurence Sterne. Etching by Hédouin	[Frontispiece]

Tomb of Eliza Draper in Bristol Cathedral	[50]

Commodore James, by Sir Joshua Reynolds	[157]

Belvidere House, by Lee Woodward Zeigler, from an original sketch by J. B. Frazer	[173]

Abbé Raynal	[279]

INTRODUCTION