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juftice I, as a Spectator, owe your character, places me above the want of an excufe. Candor and opennefs of heart, which fhine in all your words and actions, exact the highest efteem from all who have the honour to know You; and a winning condefcenfion to all fubordinate to You, made business a pleasure to those who executed it under You, at the fame time that it heightened her Majefty's favour to all who had the happinefs of having it convey'd through your hands. A fecretary of state, in the interest of mankind, joined with that of his fellow-fubjects, accomplished with a great facility and elegance in all the modern as well as antient languages, was a happy and proper member of a miniftry, by whose services your

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fovereign and country are in fo high and flourishing a condition, as makes all other princes and potentates powerful or inconfiderable in Europe, as they are friends or enemies to Great-Britain. importance of those great events which happened during that administration, in which your Lordship bore fo important a charge, will be acknowledged as long as time fhall endure; I fhall not therefore attempt to rehearse those illuftrious paffages, but give this application a more private and particular turn, in defiring your Lordfhip would continue your favour and patronage to me, as You are a gentleman of the most polite literature, and perfectly accomplished in the knowledge of books and men, which makes it neceffary

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to beseech your indulgence to the following leaves, and the author of them: Who is, with the greatest truth and respect,

My LORD,

Your Lordship's

obliged, obedient, and

bumble fervant,

The SPECTATOR.

THE

SPECTATOR.

VOL. VI,

AS

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