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Rh I am under an Engagement to Your Lordship to say something of History towards forming Your Style; I intended indeed to have spoken of it at large, but since it is enough for me at present to mention only our most celebrated Historians, I will deferr what I designed to say of the Laws of History, and the Rules to be observed in Reading it, till Your Lordship shall give me Permission to trouble You farther in this way.

All that seemeth necessary to the Business now before us, is to give Your Lordship some Observations upon the historical Style, because, of all others, Rh