THE

SPECTATOR.

VOL. IV.

The SEVENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for J. TONSON in the Strand.

M DCC XXIV.

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DUKE

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MARLBOROUGH.

MY LORD,

S it is natural to have a Fondness for what has coft

us much Time and Attenti

on to produce, I hope Your Grace will forgive an Endeavour to preserve this Work from Oblivion,by affixing it to Your memorable Name. I fhall not here presume to mention the illuftrious Paffages of your Life, which are celebrated by the whole Age, and have been the Subject of the moft fublime Pens; but if I could convey You to Posterity in your private Character, and defcribe the Stature, the Behaviour

haviour and Afpect of the Duke of Marlborough, I

question not but it would fill the Reader with more

agreeable Images, and give him a more delightful Entertainment than what can be found in the following, or any other Book.

ONE cannot indeed without Offence, to Your self, observe, that You excel the reft of Mankind in the leaft, as well as the greatest Endowments. Nor were it