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deſign againſt the belles lettres : for my part, I rather conceive them as unthinking wretches of ſhort views and narrow capacities , who are not able to penetrate into the cauſes or conſequences of things ", w This paper, Nº 62, is aſcribed to biſhop Berkeley, on the authority of his fon, the rev. George Berkeley, formerly ſtudent of Chriſt-church, and vicar of Bray in Oxfordſhire.

N° 63, Saturday, May 23, 1713. BY STEELE, AND RICHARD. LUCAS, D.D.

Ζεύ πάτερ, αλλά συ ρύσαι υπ' έρG υίας Αχαιών: Ποίησον, δ' αίθρην, δος δ' οφθαλμοίσιν ιδέσθαι "Εν δε φάει και όλεσσον.

Hom. Il. xvii. 645 ,

O King ! O Father ! hear my humble prayer : Difpel this cloud, the ' light of heaven reſtore, Give me to ſee, and Ajax aſks no more :

If Greece muft periſh, we thy will obey,

But let us periſh in the face of day!

POPE ,

I am obliged, for many reafons, to inſert this

firſt letter, though it takes me out of my way , eſpecially on a Saturday ; but the ribaldry offome part of that will be abundantly made up by the quotation in the ſecond. " TO NESTOR IRONSIDE, ESQ. 3

SIR ,

Friday, May 22, 1713

• The Examiner of this day con

ſiſts of reflections upon the letter I writ to you, publiſhed in yours of the twelfth inſtant ”. The
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