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 110 musty almanacs, some plain prose manuals to advise them. They could never have waited to learn from an epic poem that

or that

or that

Did the British woolen-drapers of the period require to be told in verse about

Surely they knew more about their own dry-goods than did Mr. Dyer. Is it possible that British parsons read Mr. Polwhele's "English Orator" for the sake of his somewhat confused advice to preachers?—

Meantime thy Style familiar, that alludes

With pleasing Retrospect to recent Scenes

Or Incidents amidst thy Flock, fresh graved

On Memory, shall recall their scattered Thoughts,

And interest every Bosom. With the Voice