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Rh mind what he represents him in his verses; he considered him as a hero, and was accustomed to say, that he praised others in compliance with the fashion, but that in celebrating king William he followed his inclination. To Prior gratitude would dictate praise, which reason would not refuse.

Among the advantages to arise from the future years of William’s reign, he mentions a Society for useful Arts, and among them

Tickell, in his Prospect of Peace, has the same hope of a new academy:

Whether the similitude of those passages which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion proceeded from accident or intimation, is not easy to determine. Tickell might have been Rh