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" pronounce." " Malignance will not 

 " allow," inftead of " Malignant people 

 " will not allow." " Good-nature refufes 

 " to liften," inftead of " a good natured 

 " man refufes to liften," and fo on. 



This manner of writing, whether in 

 verfe or profe, fweeps from the polilhed 

 marble of poetry and eloquence, a number 

 of the flicks and ftraws of our language ; 

 its articles, conjunctives, and p repetitions. 

 Addifon's ferious Eflays are fo littered 

 with them and with idioms, as to ren- 

 der it ftrange that they fhould ftill be 

 confidered as patterns of didadic oratory. 

 No man of genius, however, adopts their 

 diffufe and feeble ftyle, now that the 

 ftrength, the grace, and harmony of profe - 

 writing, on the dignified examples of our 

 later eflayifts, fenators, and pleaders, give 

 us better examples. Thefe obfervations 

 relate folely to the grave compofitions of 

 the celebrated Atticus. The quiet, eafy, 



elegant 



