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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348

Author: Various

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Language: English

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCXLVIII. OCTOBER, 1844. VOL. LVI.

CONTENTS.

THE LIFE OF A DIPLOMATIST, 401

POEMS AND BALLADS OF GOETHE. NO. II., 417

THE GREAT DROUGHT, 433

A TENDER CONSCIENCE, 454

THIERRY'S HISTORY OF THE GAULS, 466

THE WITCHFINDER. CONCLUSION, 487

MY LAST COURTSHIP; OR, LIFE IN LOUISIANA, 507

GREECE UNDER THE ROMANS. 524

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCXLVIII. OCTOBER, 1844. VOL. LVI.

THE LIFE OF A DIPLOMATIST.{A}

This is one of those curious memoirs which, from time to time, start
forth from the family archives of public men, for the illustration of
the past and the wisdom of the future. Nothing can be more important to
either the man