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The Preface.
If we consider others, who have delivered any Rules of Writing, we shall find, the Examples they produce, are in minuter Matters to explain the Terms and Signification of the lower Rules, which relate to Grammar and Rhetoric, to the Art and Mechanism of Writing. But where they treat in generals, as I have done, they never illustrate their Rules by Examples. Quintilian's Institution is full of Quotations, for the first nine Books in which he treats his Subject as a Rhetorician, but in the three last, especially the twelfth, where he rises from Particulars to more general Considerations, we hardly have one Citation; and the same may be ob-
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