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204 a Happiness of Expression, a Clearness of Judgment, and Majesty of Style, equal to his own: Or to say all in a Word, that peculiar Felicity in designing Characters, in which he hath succeeded beyond Example. Your Lordship will want no Sollicitations to read the noblest, and most impartial Historian this Nation hath produced. The Compassion and Resentments of his Thoughts, the noble Openness and Freedom of his Reflexions, the glorious Debt he pays to Friendship, and the Veil he kindly draweth over the Sorrows and Reproach of his Country, are so admirably expressed in such Rh