A
CRITICAL ESSAY
on
Characteristic-Writings.

By Henry Gally, M.A. Lecturer of
St. Paul’s Covent-Garden, and
Rector of Wanden in Buckinghamshire.

Respicere exemplar vitæ morumque jubebo
Doctum imitatorem, & vivas hinc ducere voces.
Hor. in Art. Poet.


LONDON:
Printed for John Hooke, at the _Flower-
de-luce_ over-against St. _Dunstan’s_ Church in
_Fleet-street_. MDCCXXV.


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THE

PREFACE.


The following Papers, which I now commit to the Public, have lain by
me unregarded these many Years. They were first undertaken at the