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The Preface.
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ble Address, their Civility and Complaisance would take off those Prejudices, with which Pride and Positiveness are generally entertained. The late Edition of Horace is the finest and greatest Piece of Criticism, that was ever written on any Classic; and if the most Learned Doctor had been a more popular Writer, the World I believe would have admired several Passages they endeavour to explode: And more Texts had been acknowledged admirably restored, if some had not been magisterially obtruded. What a polite Critic may do if he pleases, and in how different an Aspect Criticism appears, when formed by Men of Parts and Fire, we
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