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The Introduction.
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ction, and Your good Parts advancing far before Your Years; discover a solid judgment joined with a quick Apprehension, which, if duly improved, will teach You to think right, and bring You to so just a Conclusion in all Emergencies, that to apprehend and determine will be but one Trouble; so vast an Advantage is a natural Penetration in an Understanding like Yours, when it comes to be exercised in Knowledge, and acquainted with the World.

I have observed, besides the Readiness of Parts, a Goodness of Nature, an excellent Disposition of Mind derived, to Your

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