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p R E F A C E. 
were blefs’d with the fame academical Endowments 
that other Nations can boaft of, we fhould un- 
doubtedly have as great Proficients in the Arts of 
Painting and Sculpture as any Nation : For it is no- 
torious, that our Youth have made as good a Figure 
in foreign Academies as any that were educated at 
them s and we have even had fome, who, by dint of 
Genius, have born away theorizes from thofe of every 
other Nation. 
vih. 
But not to dwell unneceflarily upon what all the 
W orld, except the Author in Queftion, knows, weean- 
not but fall into the following Reflexions : Every one, 
from the firft Dawn of his Underftanding, is borne 
away by the Torrent of Partiality, till a generous Edu- 
cation wears it off, and qualifies the Man for palling 
an impartial Judgment upon every thing that comes 
before him 3 and this is ever Matter of the unhappy 
Wretch w ho has had no fuch Advantage. Now it 
was ttrange to find the Duft of Prejudice had fo 
blinded the Eyes of that Author, who has the Re- 
putation of a Man of Learning, that, at his Arrival 
in England, he was fcarce able to difeem any thing 
but Fault-s and DefeXs thro* the whole Kingdom s 
whilft at home there was hardly an ImperfeXion : 
But it may be fuppofed he had a Mind to give the 
World a Specimen of his Abilities in Satire. 
IX. 
Satire requires a very refin'd Genius and Tafte to 
xarry it on, whether in Profe or Verfej for, when 
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