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The Preface.
Want of such Informations, of from the Loss of them, Learned Men have been at a World of Pains in settling the Date of many excellent Pieces, and have differed vastly from one another not only in a Day, or a Month, but even in a Year, nay sometimes in two or three. But I have always observed, that the disagree most, where they differ least; the nearer they come to one another, the closer is the Engagement; and the critical War is always hottest, when there is nothing between them.
I hope the Readers will be so candid, as not to expect what they do not find, for I am very sensible from the better Judgment
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