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is impossible Your Lordship should not stand upon the highest Eminence, and hold the first Rank with those who are distinguished for the Beauties of their Style. For beside the common Accomplishment of Classic Learning, Persons of Your Lordship's Quality have so fine a Turn, so genteel an Air from their Breeding, and courtly Conversation in every Thing they write or speak, that it giveth an inimitable Grace to their Words and Compositions; and I never knew a Nobleman equal in Learning to other Men, but he was superior to them in the Delicacy and Civility of his Style.