THE

SPIRIT OF THE AGE:

OR

CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS.

“ To know a man well, were to know himself.”

HAMLET.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1825.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET-STREET.

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. MR. BROUGHAM-SIR F. BURDETT .

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