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Rh ways at Variance with the other half. I have met with People who aur'd me that the Duke of Marlborough was a Coward, and that Mr. Pope was a Fool; jut as ome Jeuits in France declare Pacal to have been a Man of little or no Genius; and ome Janenits affirm Father Bourdaloüe to have been a mere Babbler. The Jacobites conider Mary Queen of Scots as a pious Heroine, but thoe of an oppoite Party look upon her as a Protitute, an Adulteres, a Murtherer. Thus the Englih have Memorials of the everal Reigns, but no uch Thing as a Hitory. There is indeed now living, one Mr. Gordon, (the Publick are oblig'd to him for a Tranlation of Tacitus) who is very capable of writing the Hitory of his own Country, but Rapin de Thoyras got the Start of him. To conclude, in my Opinion, the Englh have not uch good Hitorians as the French, have no uch Thing as a real Tragedy, have everal delightful Comedies, ome wonderful Paages in certain of their Poems, and boat of Philoophers that

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