Quartum hunc gradum novi beneficii tu, Auguste, constituis: differre tibi ipsi, quo alter ornetur, bona animi tui ad alienam referre praestantiam eruditionemque naturae, quam deo et patri et tibi debes, ad alterius efficaciam gratius retorquere quam verius.
And to this new favour of yours, your Majesty, you add a fourth degree, in that you disparage yourself to do another honour, give the credit of the excellences of your mind to the efficacy of exterior influence, and with greater generosity than truth, misrepresent those natural accomplishments which you owe to God, to your father, and to yourself as the product of a strangers efforts.
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