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<dl><dd>"Some years ago Lady Morgan's work upon Italy was extracted from my portmanteau by an officer of the Roman custom-house. The man read the name in the title-page, and dropped the book as if it had singed his fingers, rejecting all entreaties to have it restored with a degree of ill-humour and asperity very unusual even amongst a class of officials by no means renowned for excess of civility. As I had not then read the offensive pages, I should, in all probability, never have known the reason which excited so much spleen, if her ladyship had not been induced, by the injudicious vauntings of her opponents...."</dd></dl><p><br>
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<dd>digitized</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Chair Of Saint Peter; Chair of Saint Peter</div>
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Rich, Anthony, 1803 or 1804-1891</div>
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