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78, we should ﬁnd he could Write, as well as Fight, like Cæsar. I am fallen from Verse to Prose, my Lord, and here I must not pass by Sir William Temple, the most perfect Pattern of good Writing and good Breeding this Nation hath produced. Perhaps Mr. Boyle's Book in Defence of Phalaris will be charged upon some Sophist too, but taking it for Genuine at present, if we own Dr. Bentley is the better Critic, we must acknowledge my Lord Orrery is much the genteelest Writer.

The Observation I have made is so universal, it were endless to pursue it in any Rh