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BURKE'S CONVERSATIONS.

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Ireland, who is peculiarly virulent as I am told against him.

“Of Mr. Burke’s first book on this subject, just eighteen thousand have been now sold, as he told me this day. Twelve thousand of the French translation have been sold in Paris. It is done by Mons. Dupont, an avocat of the parliament of Paris.”^[1]

↑ All these circumstances I had learned from his family, in many conversations which Mrs. Haviland, his niece, had communicated to her son, Mr. Haviland Burke. But it is satisfactory to have such a matter-of-fact witness as Malone to their accuracy.

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[1] All these circumstances I had learned from his family, in many conversations which Mrs. Haviland, his niece, had communicated to her son, Mr. Haviland Burke. But it is satisfactory to have such a matter-of-fact witness as Malone to their accuracy.

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