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Sect.' Names of the Heroes, with his Accounts of XII. ' their Families ; and principally how it comes fVV < to pass, That each of them was destined as it ' were to kill some certain Prince, or to be kil' led by another ? For whence had he the Per* sons whom he introduces ? Such as his Eu. phorbus, Helenus and Deiphobus ? and besides ' whence had he his Knowledge of the great ' whom he recounts in the Catalogue? For it ' is plain that Homer does not feign these « Things ; but relates real Deeds, which were ' truly performed and acted, excepting a few ' which he seems to have purposely contrived, ' in order to diversify and soften his Poetry. Philojlratus Heroics XVI1L
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his Country, and who has shewn the true Use to be made of Learning and Travely observes, ' That the Civility paid by the politer Nations ' of Europe to the fair Sex ' is by the Arabs ' looked upon as an extravagant Infringement c the Pre-eminence : The Matrons of that - • Country being only Servants of better Fashion, ' and Business.' This must be a Part of what the Rh
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