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A LETTER from M. TURGOT, late comptroller-general of the finances of France

1784 Paratext Functions: Meta-communicative English

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p. 166: 'It is not easy to do justice in English to many parts of the preceding letter. The following Translation of it will however, I hope, be found to be nearly correct; and I think myself greatly obliged to the Gentleman who has been so good as to favour me with it.