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158 Style is beautiful and unforced, delicate and strong: Your Lordship will discern in him the true Spirit of the Classic Authors, which joined to his own Vivacity of Thought, and Brightness of Fancy, and heightened by an inward Sense of the Sacred Doctrine, every where informs and animates his Writings.

Your Lordship must not take the Value of the Writers from the Order I name them in. It is not my Office to fix their Precedency; Dr. Moss is one of the best Preachers of the Age, and an admirable Instance of the Use that is to be made of Classics, without pretending Rh