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220 '' On the Rich Quilt inks with becoming Woe, Wrapt in a Gown, for Sicknes and for Show.  This Extract in the Original, (not in the faint Tranlation I have given you of it, may be compar'd to the Decription of La Molee (Softnes or Effeminacy) in Boileau's Lutrin''.

I now have given you Specimens enough from the Englih Poets. I have made ome tranient mention of their Philoophers, but as for good Hitorians among them, I don't know of any; and indeed a French Man was forc'd to write their Hitory. Poibly the Englih Genius, which is either languid or impetuous, has not yet requir'd that unaffected Eloquence, that plain but majetic Air which Hitory requires. Poibly too, the Spirit of Party which exhibits Objects in a dim and confus'd Light, may have unk the Credit of their Hitorians. One half of the Nation is ways