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Rh The Rules I have given, are the Result of a thousand others, the Abstract and Essence of Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic; and the Examples of a perfect Style are to be taken from the best Authors in general, not from any separate Quotations. Tully and Quintilian ''do frequently commend the illustrious Writers they mention for their several Excellencies, and propose them as Standards in general for the several Ways of Writing they were distinguished in; but they never descend to Particulars, nor support their Opinions by formal Citations. For that they referr themselves to every Man's Taste and Judgment.'' Rh