![]() ![]() Your equal and placid temper, your variety of conver∣sation, your true politeness, by which you are so amiable in private society, and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre of union for the great, the accomplished, the learned, and the ingenious all these qualities I can, in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery, ascribe to you. ![]() Unrivalled fame, but also in Philosophy and elegant Literature, is well known to the present, and will continue to be the admiration of future ages. If there be a pleasure in celebrating the distinguished merit of a contemporary, mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inexcusable, in appearing fully sensible of it, where can I find one in compli∣menting whom I can with more general approbation gratify those feelings? Your excellence, not only in the Art over which you have long presided with ![]() EVERY liberal motive that can actuate an Authour in the dedication of his labours, concurs in directing me to you, as the person to whom the fol∣lowing work should be inscribed. ![]()
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