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The Preface.
show the Force and Varyings of Action and Elocution, rather than the Rules of Writing, except when he quotes himself, which is next to not quoting at all, and the worst Way of producing Examples in the World. Aristotle's Way is dry and formal; and Longinus who hath recorded some of the most beautiful Passages of the Greek Authors in his Treatise of Sublime, could not have been understood without them. I have dwell'd only in general Rules, without descending into the Provinces of the Grammarian and Rhetorician, and perhaps any Body is pleased to try, he will hardly find it practicable to illustrate these Rules by Examples.
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