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 WHAT is still worse, the foreign Authors are very badly translated, and those employed for that Purpose have been religiously scrupulous to retain all Superstuities both in the Matter and Stile, though they have frequently made bold to mistake their Authors, Sense most egregiously and sometimes to castrate them greatly to their Disadvantage. The Part best executed in the Whole, though very dry, is the Introduction, which some People without the least Grounds, would fain persuade the Public was written by the great Mr Locke: But the manifold Imperfections of this Collection sufficiently confute that Pretence. WHAT is still worse, the foreign Authors are very badly translated, and those employed for that Purpose have been religiously scrupulous to retain all Superstuities both in the Matter and Stile, though they have frequently made bold to mistake their Authors, Sense most egregiously and sometimes to castrate them greatly to their Disadvantage. The Part best executed in the Whole, though very dry, is the Introduction, which some People without the least Grounds, would fain persuade the Public was written by the great Mr Locke: But the manifold Imperfections of this Collection sufficiently confute that Pretence.
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 NOTWITHSTANDING there are so many Collections of Voyages already extant, yet as Materials for this Purpose are continually encreasing, and new Discoveries daily made, there will always be the same Necessity from Time to Time of publishing new Collections, or, at least, Additions to the old. This occasioned Hakluyt to set-forth his second Edition, with great Improvements in 1599, ten Years after his first, Purchas to exhibit a new Work in 1625, and Harris to do the like in 1705. NOTWITHSTANDING there are so many Collections of Voyages already extant, yet as Materials for this Purpose are continually encreasing, and new Discoveries daily made, there will always be the same Necessity from Time to Time of publishing new Collections, or, at least, Additions to the old. This occasioned Hakluyt to set-forth his second Edition, with great Improvements in 1599, ten Years after his first, Purchas to exhibit a new Work in 1625, and Harris to do the like in 1705.
  
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