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person. He lived to be an hundred, never lost his 

 eyesight, but always wrote and read without spectacles, 

 and got on horseback without help. Until past four- 

 score years old he rode up to the death of a stag as well 

 as any man. A portrait of this gentleman is now at 

 Winborue, St. Giles, Dorsetshire, the seat of the Earl of 

 Shaftesbury." 



