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a great part of his own, that there is to be found in them, "Sublime and noble paffages, "which, by the rules of found criticifm and "reafon, may be demonftrated to be truly eloquent and beautiful.

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"There is fomething in them fo thoroughly "affecting, and fo noble and fublime withal, "that one might challenge the writings of the "most celebrated orators of antiquity to pro"duce any thing like them."

Before I conclude, I cannot help obferving with an excellent writer, that," there are "minds upon which the rays of fancy may be "pointed without effect, and which no fire of "fentiment can agitate, or exalt."-May fuch minds never violate the Beanties of Sterne; but let them be, while the virtues find fanctuary, in the hearts of the amiable-their amufement only.

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