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194 and Rome are the Subject of every Converation, o that every Man is under a Neceity of peruing uch Authors as treat of them, how diagreeable oever it may be to him; and this Study leads naturally to that of polite Literature. Mankind in general peak well in their repective Profeions. What is the Reaon why our Magitrates, our Lawyers, our Phyicians, and a great Number of the Clergy are abler Scholars, have a finer Tate and more Wit than Perons of all other Profeions? The Reaon is, becaue their Condition of Life requires a cultivated and enlightned Mind, in the ame Manner as a Merchant is oblig'd to be acquainted with his Traffick. Not long ince an Englih Nobleman, who was very young, came to ee me at Paris in his Return from Italy. He had writ a poetical Decription of that Country, which, for Delicacy and Politenes may vie with any Thing we meet with in the Earl of Rocheter, or in our Chaulieu, our Sarrain, or Chapelle. The Tranlation I have given of it is o expreive