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My Lord, I am always an Advocate for young Gentlemen in the Business of their Studies: It is certainly a great Mistake to make it difficult and laborious, to vex and torture the Minds of Youth with dry, insipid, grave, and perplexing Trifles. Study will be recommended to young Heads with better Success from the Easiness, and Pleasure of the Practice, than from the Usefulness and Importance of the Subject, and all Ways should be invented to make the learning Part delightful and engaging.

Learning is dressed to a great Disadvantage, by Critics and Grammarians; like a beautiful

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