[Footnote 1:]

The extract is from very near the close of Steele's

Christian Hero

. At this part a few lines have been omitted. In the original the paragraph closed thus:

'... the Entertainment of it, and making their great Monarch the Fountain of all that's delicate and refined, and his Court the Model for Opinions in Pleasure, as well as the Pattern in Dress; which might prevail so far upon an undiscerning world as (to accomplish it or its approaching Slavery) to make it receive a superfluous Babble for an Universal Language.'

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[Footnote 2:]

Here Steele abruptly breaks with

Fuit Ilium

—the glory has departed—on the sentence: