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Printed for PHIL. CRAMPTON, Bookfeller, at Addifon's-Head, oppofite to the Horfe-Guard, in Dame-Street. MDCCXXXVII.

BODL LIBR 6-0CT 1916 OXFORD

TO THE

DUKE

OF

MARLBOROUGH.

MY LORD,

Sit is natural to have a Fondness for what has coft us much Time and Attention to produce, I hope your Grace will forgive an Endeavour to preserve this Work from Oblivion, by affixing it to your memorable Name.

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I fhall not here prefume to mention the illuftrious Paffages of your Life, which are celebrated by the whole Age, and have been the Subject of the most fubut if I could con

blime Pens; vey you to Pofterity in your private Character, and defcribe the Stature, the Behaviour and Af pect of the Duke of Marlborough, I queftion not but it would fill the Reader with more agreeable Images, and give him a more delightful Entertainment than what can be found in the following, or any other Book.

ONE cannot indeed without Offence, to your self, observe, that you excel the rest of Mankind in the leaft, as well as the greatest Endowments. Nor were

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it a Circumstance to be mentioned, if the Graces and Attracti ons of your Person were not the only Preheminence you have above others, which is left, almost, unobserved by greater Writers.

YET how pleafing would it be to those who fhall read the furprizing Revolutions in your Story, to be made acquainted. with your ordinary Life and Deportment? How pleafing would it be to hear that the fame Man who carried Fire and Sword into the Countries of all that had opposed the Cause of Liberty, and truck a Terror into the Armies of France, had in the midst of His high Station a Behaviour as gentle as is usual in the first A 3. Steps

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