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Accuracy of Style.

In FIVE DIALOGUES..

CONTAINING

Of the Ufe of Obfolete Words.
Rapin's Rules of Style.
Of Obfcurity in Writing.
On Harmony of Sound.
French Writers not a Rule in

other Languages.

Vogue not always a fure Proof

of a good Writer.

Of the Beauties and Blemishes in

the Style of the late famous

Mr. COLLIER.

Of that Gentleman's Oddnefs of

Expreffion, Metaphors,

With Brief OBSERVATIONS interfperfed thro' the Whole, on

ARISTOTLE,

LONGINUS,

QUINTILIAN,

CICERO,

TACITUS,

And

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many other Curious Particulars referred to in the INDEX..

By Mr. JOHN CONSTABLE,
Author of the Converfation of Gentlemen, &c.

Printed for JOHN HAWKINS, at the Falcon in St. Paul's
Church-yard. M. DCC. XXXVIII.

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PREFACE

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Long and uniform difcourfe, with a series of abftract Rules, foon tires and fatigues the Reader. Efpecially if you add the frequent Definitions, Divifions, and Terms of Art, which have naturally place in fuch a difcourfe; and above all, the tedious Accuracy of Analytical Tables, and the like Schemes. A meer distinction of Chapters ferves but little in fo dry a method of reafoning, and does not fufficiently unbend the application. The Reader is apt to be diffatisfied with hearing

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