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The Preface.
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of Mankind, that they will be under a strange Temptation to blame such a Work as this, for laying down Rules without giving Examples; and I must own, it does not seem easy for me to excuse so great an Omission, when I might at once with the Trouble only of Transcribing, have enlarged the Book, adorned the Work, and diverted the courteous Reader.
But, perhaps, I had a Mind to be the first Modern that ever composed a Piece of this Nature without the Pomp of Quotations; and since I did not see the Necessity of it, I was willing to avoid all Ostentation of Learning. Tully is very sparing in Quotations. Most that he useth are to
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