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Tq the. former I deGgn’d. -this Jbx idgme nt - to be at-Uft-sul as the Volumes at large, and to ferve the Latter in*ftead of a not inconvenient Repertorium And in the Pro-secution of this Defigo, I have Generally confined my felf tothefe Rules.

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. I. ^ have ppt oyly Rjtairfd the EflgntiaUPaits of jbeDifcourfes, but I have kept in many Places to the very Wor*dsof their own Authors, fexcept where I was. forcM to Varythem a little, to p refer vetfie Connection:) For I thypghtit very Unwarrantable to Obtrude any thing of minej| un-der the Name of another Person.

II. But to Shorten the Whole Wovjf* wherever I iouni^lany Personal Jdd/eßes % Lohg and Unpeceffary Excurßonf ,or Pompous Ctt'attöns of Books, IJiave taken the Liherty toSupprefi themyyet, I böpei' 'witftout Ipjijring the Force ofthe Author’s Reafoning.

' IIP. I nave Omitted all Accounts and Extrakt, of ßboks ttvhich howj after so many Years Publication, feem almostOfelefs: Yet fö put the Readers ip paind of them, efpegallyfiich as 'are about toFbrnllh yr Enlarge their Libraries, !feaVe added a Catälogue at the End of eacfr .Chapter, towhich they chiefiy belong', And I have also Djrefled^t^^nto such Addttiöns , Emendat ions, or \Resutaiions y as ougfjt tobe confufted, when'thoß Books 'fall upder their". Exarav

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