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Spirit, as if he stood in the hottest of the Engagement; and what is most excellent, as weIl as remarkable in so close a Style, is, that it is numerous and harmonious, that his Words are not laboured nor forced, but fall into their Places in a natural Order, as into their most proper Situation.

Salust and Livy Your Lordship will read, I hope with so much Pleasure, as to make a thorough and intimate Acquaintance with them. I have said a great many Pages back, that Thucydides and Salust are generally compared, as Livy is with Herodotus; and since I am fallen upon their Chara-

cters,