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Salust and Livy Your Lordship will read, I hope with so much Pleasure, as to make a thorough and intimate Acquaintance with them. I have said a great many Pages back, that Thucydides and Salust are generally compared, as Livy is with Herodotus; and since I am fallen upon their Rh