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THE

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HISTORY

OF THE、.

LIFE

OF

PETER I.

EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.

VOL. III.

By JOHN MOTTLEY, Efq;

LONDON:

Printed for J. READ, in WHITE - FRYARS.
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OW little deserving foever his Writings may be, there is no Author who has taken much Pains in a Work, but fets a Value upon it himself; and if this was not my Case, I should not think of begging Leave to place one of the Volumes of this History under your Protection; but there is such an Air of that awful and distant Respect