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upon the Subject at length; and tho' what I say, is no doubt inculcated to Your Lordship by better Hands, yet Variety may engage Your Attention, and the same Precepts differently applyed will make the deeper Impression, where Your Mind hath received the Characters before, and is readier to admit a second Stamp, when it is so well prepared by the first.

Your Lordship will at least have the Advantage of seeing Things together; and Leisure to weigh and consider the Reasonableness of what is recommended to You: And if I offer any Thing which is not commonly observed, I hope it will

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