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The Praise of Livy.
Elegance and Purity, the Greatness and Nobleness of his Diction, his Happiness in Narration, and his wonderful Eloquence, are above all Commendation; and his Style, if we were to decide, is certainly the Standard of Roman History. For Salust, I must own, is too impetuous in his Course; he hurries his Reader on too fast, and hardly ever alloweth him the Pleasure of Expectation, which in reading History, where it is justly raised upon important Events, is the greatest of all others.
Your Lordship will observe, by reading some ordinary Historians, and comparing them
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