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PIECE S,

ON

Various SUBJECTS.

By feveral AUTHORS.

In TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I. Containing

1. Crito: or a Dialogue on

Beauty.

Addreffed to the Royal

Society.

II. An Account of the Em-V. A Modeft Defence of

peror of China's Gardens,
near Pekin.

III. Deformity. By William
Hay, Efq.
IV. Lucina fine Concubitu.

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LONDON,

Printed for R. and J. DODSLEY, in Pall-mall.

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DIALOGUE,

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BEAUTY.

T was on one of the moft pleafing Mornings in the last Summer, that CRITO stole from the

Noife and Buftle of the Town, to enjoy an agreeable Day, or Two, with his Friend TIMAN THES in the Country. TIMANTHES received him with all that Joy and Pleasure, which is ufual between Friends, who love one another entirely; and who have not met for a confiderable Time. He fhewed him his new Grove, and Gardens; and, as they were walking in the latter, "Since the Weather begins to be fo warm (fays he,) if you like it, we will dine under that open Tent. The Air there will be refreshing to you; and will bring us the Smell of the Orange and Lemon-Trees which furround it, without breaking that View of the Country, of which you used to be fo fond. When I placed them there, I had you in my Thoughts; and imagined it might

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