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bright Thought, and delicate Expression, and all the Charms of Language, that Religion looketh lovely like herself, as well as venerable in our Eyes.

I have been induced by the Pleasure that remaineth on my Mind from Reading, to forget that I was mentioning him only as a Divine, but every Thing from his Pen is in such Perfection, that 'tis of Advantage to Your Lordship, wherever I introduce him.

Dr. Atterbury writeth with the fewest Faults, and greatest Excellencies of any, who have studied to mix Art and Nature in their Compositions: His

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