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Polite letters never loft more than in the defeat of this feheme, in which, each ofthis illnfliious triumvirate would have found exer cife for his own pcculiar talent; belides confiant employment for that they all had in common. Dr. Arbuthnot was {killed in every thing which irlared to fciente; Mr. Pepe was a matter in the fine arts; and Dr. Wft excelled in the'knowledge of the world wit (hey had all in equal meafme; and this fo large, as no age perhaps ever produc 3d three men to whom nature had more boumiftllly be flowed it, or art brought it to higher perfeftion. Warburton.
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