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meaning) men, who may be led to think that truth, judgment, and impartiality are fmall matters, when contrafted with what Dr. Johnson's admirers have thought fit to call, an inimitable elegance of stile and compofition. Our countrymen are certainly interested, that wrong reprefentations of the character of fo capital a writer as John Milton fhould be corrected, and properly cenfured; and therefore as the work from which the following Remarks are extracted may fall into the hands of very few of the numerous readers of Dr. Johnson's Prefaces, we hope the public will approve of our republishing these strictures on the Doctor's account of Milton, in a form to which may be had an eafier and more general accefs.

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We have only to add, that it has been thought convenient to fubjoin to these Remarks, new and accurate editions of two of Milton's profe tracts; viz. his Letter to Mr. Samuel Hartlib on Education, and his Areopagitica. The first was grown scarce, being omitted in fome editions, both of the author's profe and poetical works; but highly worthy to be preserved as prefcribing a course of discipline, which, though out of fashion in these times, affords many useful leffons to those who may have abilities and courage enough to adopt fome of thofe improvements, of which the modes of learned education in prefent practice are confeffedly fufceptible;

The other will of courfe recommend itself to all advocates for the liberty of the prefs, and moreover may, in half an hour's reading, entertain fome part of the public with a contrast between the magnanimity of Milton, in facing a formidable enemy, and Dr. Johnfon's feefaw meditations, the fhifty wiles of a man Jetween two fires, who neither dares fight nor run away. Thefe two tracts are published from the first editions.

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The other will of courfe recommend itself to all advocates for the liberty of the prefs, and moreover may, in half an hour's reading, entertain fome part of the public with a contraft between the magnanimity of Milton, in facing a formidable enemy, and Dr. Johnson's feefaw meditations, the fhifty wiles of a inan Jetween two fires, who neither dares fight nor run away. These two tracts are published from the first editions.

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