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HEN I reflect, My Lord, upon this way of reasoning, from the Inﬂuence that pubiick Manners have upon Writing, I make no doubt but the Question will recur; Since it is absolutcly the Conjuncture, and Manners of the Times that produce Poets, "How have we but one Homer? Cou’d a Space of two or three hundred Years, when Greece, and the Coast of Asia, was in a proper Temperament for such Formations, bring forth but one?