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Course of our own Thoughts, and taketh its Place in our Writings with as much Ease, and looketh with as good a Grace, as it appeared in Two Thousand Years ago.
This, my Lord, is the best Way of remembring the Antient Authors, when You relish their Way of Writing, enter into their Thoughts, and imbibe their Sense. There is no need of tying ourselves up to an Imitation of any of them; much less to copy, or transcribe them. For there is Room for vast Variety of Thought and Style, as Nature is various in her Works, and is Nature still. Good Authors, like the cele-
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