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Rh and poor. Horace, and Virgil, and Homer, lose their Spirits and their Strength in the Translation, to that Degree, that we have hardly Patience to read them. But, my Lord, the Sacred Writings, even in our Translation, preserve their Majesty and their Glory, and very far surpass the brightest and noblest Compositions of Greece and Rome. And this is not owing to the Richness and Solemnity of the Eastern Eloquence, for it holdeth in no other Instance, but to the Divine Direction and Assistance of the Holy Writers. For, let me only make this Remark, that the most literal Translation of the Rh