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    "title": "Miscellaneous Prose by Elizabeth Carter",
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            "text": "In this work is moreover contained the complete science of circitmlocuiioti, and the whole art of confounding, perplexing, puzzling, and tenebrificating a subject with great variety of circumstances equally applicable (o any other, (an art particularly useful to sncli gentlemen and ladies as intend to write folios.) There is likewise shewn a new and curious method of drawing similes between things directly contrary ; extracted and illustrated with examples from the most eminent poets, philosophers, and rhetoricians of the present age 'J'his most excellent work will be introduced with a preface by Mrs. S L , in which, among many other curious particulars, will be shewn the rise, progress, and perfection of a carrywitchct *, together witli a learned and elaborate dissertation on rebusscs and conundrums. Moreover, a very profound and subtile enquiry into the nature and etymology of an acrostick. To uU which will be added likewise, the corrections, reflections, observations, annotations, alterations, mntilations, restorations, commentations, and obscuratioiis of the said Airs S L upon several choice original manuscripts of this sort of learning; collected in her travels among the libraries of tiie lidotians, Croatians, Laplanders, Vriin Tartars, and other polhe and ingenious nations, where it has most successfully nourished and abounded. To this most extraordinary preface (which will be comprised in the two first volumes) will be added * Of tliia word ihc Editor know» umtlicr (lie deriiatioD, aor tlie raeaiung. Il v liroUabl)' somr cital (.xpreuiou iii use at tliat limt' by way of postscript, a discourse on the whole art of compHmenting, by Mrs. E B . student in fine speeches The dedication will be composed by Mrs. E C ^",
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