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CHRISTOPHER SMART, A. M.

Sometime Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge,
And Scholar of the University.

Malé nominatis,

Parcite verbis.

Her.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOLUME III.

LONDON:

Printed for W. FLEXNEY, in Holborn; Meff. JOHNSON and Co.
in Pater-nofter-Row; and T. CASLON, near Stationer's-Hall,

MDCC LXVII.

PRÆFATIONEM DACERIANAM quod attinet, ea eft fufcepti operis ratio, ut locum aut laudem tanti Viri lucubrationibus denegare nullis nominibus placuerit. Quamvis enim Gallia feraciffima fit hominum, qui quam feliciter in re clafficâ operam navarunt, nemini tanen inter omnes fententia gravior, nemini illuftrior perfpicuitas. Non ubivis gentium extat ingeniofus judex: Indicium enim in multis, in paucis detigitur ingenium; altera res cum fæpe & humanitus fieri foleat, altera cum raro et planae divinitus.

V. CL. AND R. DACERI I

PRÆFATIO

IN

HORATII

SATIRAS.

De Origine & Progreffu SATIRE Romanæ, & quas Mutationes fubierit.

HOR

ORATII Satiras duobus Libris comprehenfas, nunc Sermones, nunc Satiras, nullo difcrimine appellavit ipfe: verùm quum Ideas imodis qui

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