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The Gentlemen of the Army will equally adorn the Province to which I have aſſigned them, of ſetting the Diſcoveries and Sentiments of their Aſſociates in a clear and agreeable Light. The Lawyers are well known not to be very happy in expreſſing their Ideas, being for the moſt Part able to make themſelves underſtood by none but their own Fraternity. But the Geniuſes of the Army have ſufficient Opportunities, by their free Acceſs to the Levee and the Toilet, their conſtant Attendance on Balls and Aſſemblies, and that abundant Leiſure which they enjoy beyond any other Body of Men, to acquaint themſelves with every new Word and prevailing Mode of Expreſſion, and to attain the utmoſt Nicety and moil poliſhed Prettineſs of Language.

It will be neceſſary, that during their Attendance upon the Society, they be exempt from any Obligation to appear on Hyde Park; and that upon no Emergency, however preſſing, they be called away from their Studies, unleſs the Na-

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