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Printed for R. GRIFFITHS, at the Dunciad, in

Pater-nofter Row.

MDCCLVIII.

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HE Editor's principal design in this MISCELLANY, was to collect from fome of the best modern writers fuch parts of their works, as to him, seem'd best adapted to form the minds of youth to juft and proper fentiments on the most interesting subjects. Such a collection, he imagined, would be very useful in fchools, and not only fo, but peculiarly suited to fuch perfons as cannot afford to purchase those works from which the collection is made.

To render it as entertaining as poffible, and to convey inftruction in the most agreeable manner, he has taken care to infert feveral Stories, Vifions, and Allegories, which imprefs the imaginations, and fix the giddy roving minds of youth more than any other fpecies of composition. With the fame

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view he has likewife inserted several pieces of Poetry, which he hopes will be acceptable to every class of readers.

In a word, he can't help thinking that this collection may be of confiderable fervice to form the minds of youth to knowledge and virtue, and likewife to give them fome notion of the beauty, ftrength, and elegance of our own language, which, tho' an important branch of education, is, in general, too much neglected.

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