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EFFIGIES SACRE DIVUM-

VISE ANTE OCULOS ASTARE JACENTIS

IN SOMNIS.

NEC SOPOR ILLUD ERAT; SED CORAM AGNOSCERE
VULTUS,

VELATASQUE COMAS, PRÆSENTIAQUE ORA VI-
VIRGIL.

DEBAR.

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HE profeffed design of all our

periodical writers, who are at present the chief ornaments of the ENGLISH nation, is to amuse, and inftruct the public; and fome of them, conscious of their fuperior abilities, have proceeded fo far, as to promise a cure for all the vices and follies of the age. I must do them the juftice to acknowledge, that they have left no fubject unattempted in any art or fcience. There are among them learned philofophers and profound divines, eloquent orators and excellent

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