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[ 'Passerau:' author of another book of the same stamp, called 'A Philosophical Discourse on Death,' being a defence of suicide. He was a nobleman of Piedmont.]
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[ 'A printer:' a fact that happened in London a few years past. The unhappy man left behind him a paper justifying his action by the reasonings of some of these authors.—P.]
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[ 'Gin:' a spirituous liquor, the exhorbitant use of which had almost destroyed the lowest rank of the people, till it was restrained by an Act of Parliament in 1736.—P.]
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[ 'Quaker's wife:' Mrs Drummond, a preacher.]
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[ 'Landaff:' Harris by name, a worthy man, who had somehow offended the poet.]