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THE Tate of the Public, with regard to Epitolary Writing, have been much vitiated by ome modern Authors, it may not be amis to premie ome hort Matter concerning it in this Place, that the Reader may not expect another Kind of Entertainment than he will meet with in the following Papers, nor impute the Author's deigned Deviation from the common Road, to any Mitake or Error.

Writings which are called Letters, may be divided into four Claes. Under the firt Clas may be ranged thoe Letters, as well antient as modern, which have been written by Men, who have filled up the principal Characters on the Stage of Life, upon great and memorable III.