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12 Minds; and 'tis difficult to fix the Mercury, and settle a brisk, lively Temper in a laborious, plodding Track of Learning. This Your Lordship's Parts are too delicate to admit of, and too ready to need: Your Lordship will always use Application enough to apprehend Things fully, and a shorter Attention, if it be close, will master any Difficulty, that falls in Your way: I believe, Your Lordship is of that generous Temper so natural to Persons of Your great Parts, to suffer no Difficulty to be too hard for You, and to master every Opposition, that would obstruct Your Passage.

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