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VOLUME the SEVENTH.

LOND 0, N.;.

Printed for J.and R.TONSON arid S.DRAPER

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Mr. METHUEN.

SIR,

T is with very great Pleafure I take an Opportunity of publishing the

Gratitude I owe You, for the Place You allow me in your Friendship and Familiarity. I will not acknowledge to You that I

have often

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had You in my

A Thoughts,

Thoughts, when I have endeavoured to Draw, in fome Parts of thefe Difcourfes, the Character of a Good-natur'd, Honeft and Accomplish'd Gentleman. But fuch Representations give my Reader an Idea of a Perfon blameless only, or only laudable for fuch Perfections as extend no farther than to his own private Advantage and Reputation.

But when I speak of You, I Celebrate One who has had the Happiness of poffeffing alfo those Qualities which make a Man useful to Society, and of having had Opportunities of Exerting them in the most Confpicuous Manner.

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