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Inquiry into fame and virtue from a London bookseller to Pekin peers
In Lewes Jan 5 1701 a letter recounts a journey to discover the era’s true greats, testing methods among vulga r society, statues at Westminster Abbey, and coffeehouse critics. The writer concludes genuine fame rests on merit, not popular flattery, and ends with Sussex parliamentary wishes from Pelham and Butler.
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Tom Collins
Tom
England
Tacitus
Brutus
Cassius
Cato
Westminster Abbey
Roubillac
Rowbillac
Lewes
Sussex
Pelham
John Butler