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OF SAMUEL ETHERIDGE,

For J. WHITE, THOMAS & ANDREWS, W. SPOTSWOOD,
D. WEST, W. P. BLAKE, E. LARKIN, & 7. WEST:

M DCC XCVI,

PREFACE.

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PRINTING, by multiplying copies at will, affords to writers great opportumity of receiving inftruction from every quarter. The author of this treatise, having always been of opinion that the general tafte is feldom wrong, was refolved from the beginning to fubmit to it with entire refignation: its feverest difapprobation might have incited him to do better, but never to complain. Finding now the judgment of the public to be favourable, ought, he not to draw fatisfaction from it? He would be devoid of fenfibility were he not greatly fatisfied. Many criticifms have indeed reached his car; but they are candid and benevolent, if not always juft. Gratitude, therefore, had there been no other motive, must have roufed his utmost industry to clear this edition from all the defects of the former, fo far as fuggefted by others, or difcov

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