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PREFACE.
Written by a Friend of the Author.
THE Taſte of the Public, with regard to Epiſtolary Writing, have been much vitiated by ſome modern Authors, it may not be amiſs to premiſe ſome ſhort Matter concerning it in this Place, that the Reader may not expect another Kind of Entertainment than he will meet with in the following Papers, nor impute the Author's deſigned Deviation from the common Road, to any Miſtake or Error.
Those Writings which are called Letters, may be divided into four Claſſes. Under the firſt Claſs may be ranged thoſe Letters, as well antient as modern, which have been written by Men, who have filled up the principal Characters on the Stage of Life, upon great and memorable
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