[768] Epist. ii. ver. 274; Epist. iii. ver. 286.
[769] Epist. iii. ver. 305.
[770] Warburton's Works, vol. xii. p. 335.
[771] Bolingbroke's Works, vol. iv. p. 436.
[772] Bolingbroke's Works, vol. iv. pp. 333, 366. "The imperfection of the parts," says Leibnitz, Opera, p. 638, "produce a greater perfection in the whole." According to his custom, Bolingbroke copied Leibnitz without naming him.
[773] Bolingbroke's Works, vol. iii. p. 41.
[774] Pope's Correspondence, ed. Elwin, vol. i. p. 339.
[775] Pope's Correspondence, vol. i. pp. 339, 345, 346, 348.
[776] Spence, p. 107.
[777] Middleton to Warburton, Jan. 7, 1740.