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no Necessity of being methodical, and I will not entertain Your Lordship with a dry System upon the Matter, but with what Your Lordship will read with more Pleasure, and I hope, with equal Profit, some desultory Thoughts in their Native Order, as they rise in my Mind without being reduced to Rules, and marshalled according to Art.

I am ambitious, my Lord, to see You Master of a fine Pen; You have so many Advantages to command it, that You may easily excell; for as You have laid the necessary Foundation, I you raise upon it the beautiful Structure of Classic Learning, it

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