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quired in a finished Piece to make it complete in all its Parts, and Masterly in the Whole.
I would not lay down any impracticable Schemes, nor trouble Your Lordship with a dry formal Method: The Rule of Writing, like that of our Duty, is perfect in its Kind; but we must make Allowances for the Infirmities of Nature, and, since none is without his Faults, the most that can be said, is, that He is the best Writer, against whom the Fewest can be alledged.
"A Composition is then perfect, my Lord, when the Matter riseth out of the Sub-
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