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From: The Booksellers, Henry Dell, 1766.
MILLAN deserving of the warmest praise,
As full of worth and virtue as of days;
Brave, open, gen'rous, 'tis in him we find,
A solid judgment, and a taste refined.
Nature's most choice productions are his care,
And them t'obtain no cost or pains does spare,
A character so amiable and bright,
Inspires the Muse with rapture and delight:The Gentleman and Tradesman both in him unite.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Knight, John Joseph (1887). "Cockings, George". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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