Efteem; but the Paffionate Veneration I have for Your Lordship, I think, flows from an Admiration of Qualities in You, of which, in the whole Course of these Papers, I have acknowledged my felf incapable. While I bufie my

felf as a Stranger upon Earth, and can pretend to

no other than being a

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Letters: While I am filent,

and unobferved in publick Meetings, You are admired by all that approach Suosite

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You as the Life and Geni

us of the Converfation. con that you

What an happy Conjun

ction of different Talents

meets in him whofe whole Difcourfe is at once animated by the Strength and

Force of Reafon, and a

dorned

dorned with all the Gra'ces and Embellishments of Wit? When Learning irradiates common Life, it is then in its highest Use and Perfection; and it is

to fuch as Your Lordship, that the Sciences owe the Efteem which they have with the active Part of Mankind. Knowledge of Books in reclufe Men, is like that fort of Lanthorn which hides him who car

ries it, and ferves only to pafs through fecret and gloomy Paths of his own; but in the Poffeffion of a Man of Bufinefs, it is as a Torch in the Hand of one who is willing and able to fhew those, who are bewildered, the Way which leads to their Profperity

Great and Noble, are what actuate all Your Life and Actions; and I hope You will forgive me that I have an Ambition this Book may be placed in the Library of so good a Judge of what is valuable, in that Library where the Choice is fuch, that it will not be a Difparagement to be the meaneft Author in it. Forgive me, my Lord, for taking this Occafion of tel