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Recently formed.
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Quoted in Cunningham's Life of Harlow.
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A celebrated Hungarian, named Cosmös de Körös, has lately discovered in a Thibetian monastery, where he has been engaged translating an Encyclopaedia, that lithography and movable wooden types were known to the Chinese many centuries ago.
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A Chinese who leaves his country is considered as a traitor, and is punished with death if he ever return to it.