UPON In FIVE DIALOGUES.. CONTAINING The Chief Rules to be observed Of the too frequent Ufe of An- Of the Ufe of Obfolete Words. Of the Beauties and Blemishes in With Brief OBSERVATIONS interfperfed thro' the Whole, on ARISTOTLE, LONGINUS, QUINTILIAN, CICERO, TACITUS, And many other Curious Particulars referred to in the INDEX.. By Mr. JOHN CONSTABLE, Printed for JOHN HAWKINS, at the Falcon in St. Paul's (3) THE PREFACE A 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 |