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POSTSCRIPT.

T were an unpardonable neglect to dismiss the foregoing pages without recommending the entire work from whence the Sentences were selected, as one of the finest productions of Antiquity, and as highly deserving to be attentively studied, not merely in juvenile, but in more advanced years.

From the many paffages in which the Author evidently alludes to the Tenets of SoCRATES, as delivered in his MEMORABILIA, the CYROPÆDIA plainly appears to have been written with a defign to fhew what kind of a Prince one would be, who should be educated in the SOCRATIC SCHOOL, and should regulate his life confiftently with his education. The principal historical facts are probably grounded on the accounts of CYRUS the GREAT, which were extant extant among the GREEKS; but the Dramatic and Philosophic Manner in which the work is admirably conducted, is XENOPHON'S OWN.

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There is so much invention in the plan; fuch discernment of what endowments are requifite towards conftituting an illustrious and good Character, in the attributes afcribed to CYRUS; fo much propriety in the words and actions of the feveral perfonages introduced; fo many exquifite ftrokes of true politeness; fo much Attic feftivity in the Sympofiac parts; and fo much Civil, Military, Political, and Religious Wisdom in the more ferious Dialogues, that for genius and useful knowledge and inftruction, the CYROPÆDIA perhaps is fuperior to any work whatever either of PLATo or ARISTOTLE.

But finely as the Character of CYRUS may have been drawn by XENOPHON, it is still more an imaginary than a real Character. A model of Perfect goodness and pure fanctity in the life and actions of a GODLIKE MAN who actually did exift, is to be found only in the GOSPELS, of which Writings it may be justly faid, that "Unadorned * Truth hath fomething greater in it, than all the Artifice, and all the Pomp of Eloquence."

*See THOUGHTS OF THE FATHERS BY BOHOURS.

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