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94 Decorations that are used in Writings to enliven and adorn the Work. The Flourishes of Fancy resemble the Flourishes of the Pen in Mechanick Writers, and the Illuminators of Manuscripts, and of the Press, borrowed their Title perhaps from the Illumination, which a bright Genius every where giveth to his Work, and disperseth through his Composition.

The Commendation of this Art of Enlightening and Adorning a Subject, lyeth in a right Distribution of the Shades and Light. It is in Writing, as in Picture, in which the Art is to observe where the Rh