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generally difFufed, more methodically taught, and its utility aug- 

 mented by a confiderable addition to thofe manufcript treafures 

 of which Italy was already poffeffed. Neither is the advantage to 

 be derived from a thorough knowledge of the Greek to be confi- 

 dered merely as the accefllon of a new Language, but as the 

 opening of a frefli and copious fourcc of Science and of Tafte. — 

 Indeed the language of the Greeks, and the importation of their 

 books, may be confidered as an advantage far greater than any 

 which could refult from the introdudion of their beft Teachers, 

 fmce, however the latter might have degenerated, the former 

 ftill have remained, and ever will remain, the true ftandard of 

 Elegance. 



