. The arts of logick and rhetorick : illustrated by examples taken out of the best authors, antient and modern, in all the polite languages. The Right Honourable George Dodington^ Efq; One of the Lords of the Treafury, AND Lord Lieutenant of the Countyof Somerset. SIR, H E Lofs of my intendedPatron, Sir Samuel Garthywho put me upon this Work,was fuch a E)ilcoura2;ementto my Studies, which he wasalways pleasd to favour, thatI thought no more of PereBouhours^ or Right-thinking,till 1 had the Honour of your Converiation,which revived in my Memory all thofe Ideas A 1 of. iv Dedication. of it that
. The arts of logick and rhetorick : illustrated by examples taken out of the best authors, antient and modern, in all the polite languages. The Right Honourable George Dodington^ Efq; One of the Lords of the Treafury, AND Lord Lieutenant of the Countyof Somerset. SIR, H E Lofs of my intendedPatron, Sir Samuel Garthywho put me upon this Work,was fuch a E)ilcoura2;ementto my Studies, which he wasalways pleasd to favour, thatI thought no more of PereBouhours^ or Right-thinking,till 1 had the Honour of your Converiation,which revived in my Memory all thofe Ideas A 1 of. iv Dedication. of it that are the Ornament and Ufe of theFrench Griticks admirable Trcatife. The Inducements I fhoud have had to havemade the like Addrefs to my dcceasd Friend,were his fine Learning, Genius, Tafte, Wit,Judgment, Vivacity, and Humanity, which arebut a Part of your Charadter, heightened by aperfed Knowledge of Men, and the Bufinefs ofthe World, by fuperior Dignity and Fortune;where we find verifyd what Mr. ^ope faid inFlattery of one of the late Queens lateft Mini-fters, A Genius not more dlftinguijhd hi thegreat Scenes of Bufinefs^ than in all the ufe-ful and entertaining Tarts of Learning : Butit was thofe other valuable and amiable Qiiali-ties which woud have induced me to have hadRecourfe to the Protedion of Sir Samuel Garth,as they neceilitate me to defire Yours: For with-out Learning, Genius, Tafte, Wit, and Judg-ment, no Patron coud have proteded a Bookwhich treats of nothing elfe, and that in themoft Delicate and Initrudive Manner. It was impoffible for mc not t
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