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CONTENTS.
Observations on the Scripture Language, Pag. 129.
Milton compared with Homer and Virgil, 131.
4. General Rule in Composition, Order and Proportion, 133.
Rules of Order and Proportion, 134.
A Recapitulation, 138.
The Distribution of Ornaments thro' a Discourse, 139.
The Dependence of the Rules on one another, 141.
Of a Right Taste necessary to form a Style, 142.
To be improved by Reading the best Authors, ibid.
A Taste of Poetry, 143.
What Taste in Writing is, 145.
Its Commendation, 148.
And Office, 109.
Of a vicious Taste, and false Oratory, 150.
The best English Authors proposed, 153.
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