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 which very many Men have made of them: So that every such Preferment bestowed upon any learned Man, upon the Score of his Merit, by Princes, or Great Men, in whose Gift they were, is an Instance of their Beneficence to Men of Letters: And whether a Man is considered by a Pension out of a Prince's Exchequer, or by the Collation of a Preferment in that Prince's Gift, it is to the Man who enjoys it the self-same Thing. Neither have Examples been wanting in the present Age, of Sovereign Princes who have made it as much their Business to encourage Learned Men, as, perhaps, in any of the former, that are so much commended for that very Reason. Christina Queen of Sweden, who in other Respects, was by no Means the Glory of her Sex, did, whilst she lived at Stockholm, send for the learnedest Men of Europe to come to her, that she might converse with them about those Things wherein they were most excellent. Des Cartes, Salmasius, Bochart, Nich. Heinsius, Isaac Vossius, were of that Number: And her Profuseness, which knew no Bounds, was never more visible, than in her Marks of