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could not have pleafed myfelf, nox- any of my readers of good tafte, 

 if I had attempted, in a work of this kind, to make, with fuch ma- 

 terials as the Englifh language or any other modern language affords, 

 what is commonly called Jine language; and had not contented my- 

 felf with exprefling in plain words, and with a compofition, which, 

 at the fame time that it is not obfcure, is not harfh or offenfive to 

 the ear, my thoughts upon fubjedts, which I think of great impor-" 

 tance, and fuch as will certainly draw the attention of every fenfible 

 reader. 



