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PREFACE. 



prefixed arc ftandards of writing : The exa6l 

 rneafure of what fhould and fhould not be 

 faid, and of what was necefiary to be known> 

 was never comprehended in more clear dic- 

 tion, or more elegant ftile. The pomp of the 

 buildings has not a nobler air than the fim- 

 plicity of the narration — but I mull reflrain 

 myfelf ; tho* it is pleafing to expatiate on the 

 juft praife of one's country j and they who 

 cannot perform great things themfelves, may 

 yet have a fatisfadion in doing juftice to 

 thofe who can. If Juvenal was honefl in his 

 fatireSj he would have been happy if he could 

 have lived to write the panegyric of Trajan, 



1762. 



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