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The most Antient Library, which we can remember, is that which King Osymandas built among the Agyptians, and these words were inserted in the front: here is the unidisinal ^ [[addition]] [[underline]] shop [[/underline]] [[/addition]] for the mind. The tyrant Pisistratus, who very much cherish'd the study of letters, is said to have been the first at Athens who [[deletion]] had got [[/deletion]] [[addition]] [[underline]] collected [[/underline]] [[deletion]] [[unclear]] bought together [[/deletion]] [[/addition]] books [[deletion]] for and [[unclear]] [[addition]] he gave [[unclear]] [[/addition]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] publick use [[deletion]] and he gave [[unclear]] that they should be lent out to be read. [[/deletion]] the number of which the Athiens [[deletion]] the [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] afterward increas'd by their own dilligence. But Xerxes having taken Athens, burnt all the town except the citadel he took & brought to the Persians all that [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]]