To the Right Honourable

WILLIAM

Earl of ALBEMARLE,

Viscount Bury, Baron of Keppel and of Afchfort, Lord of Voorst and Zevender; Lieutenant Collonel and Captain of a Company of Guards of His Majesty the King of Great-Brittain.

My LORD,

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HE Ingenious Author of this Book having dedica

ted it to a Noble Peer,*the moft learned States-man and greatest Genius of Great Brittain, according to His example, I think it my indifpenfable duty, to lay this Second Edition of these Excellent Remarks, at Your Lordship's Feet; for the World knows that Your Lordfhip hath in Your early years, profecuted Your Studies, in all thofe Noble Arts and Sciences fit for a Perfon of Your Birth, with fuch wonderfull Succefs, that must needs, by the Bleffing of God, not only qualify Your Lordship to Imitate that Great Man, but alfo to Merit the particular regard of this Republick, as to

* John Lord Sommers.

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those Eminent Stations both Civil and Military, to which Your Noble Birth gives a claim.

My Lord I can not but beg leave upon this occafion to acquaint Your Lordship, how very much Your promifing parts and early Vertues, doe contribute to affwage the publick Grief, for the lofs of Your Great Father, whofe diftinguishing Generofity, and dif fufive Bounty made Him admired, and His Life a publick Bleffing, therefore no wonder that His death was fo generally lamented, the wound is too great to be foon forgotten, too fresh to be now touch'd, and the Cure of it we expect

from Your Lordship.

My Lord I would fain Hope that these Remarks which I have the Honour, tho at fecond hand, to prefent You with, , may prove an agreable

entertainment and diverfion at this melancholy juncture.

If I mistake not, this was the first Piece which the ingenious Mr. Addifon publish'd, and whereby He defervedly purchased the Character of Polite and Learned Gentleman, He has fince made publick feveral other things, fome of which have been tranflated into French, that have gaind Him the reputation of an Extraordinary Genius, with all perfons of Tate and good

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Senfe on this fide of the water, and amongst whom without flattery, I may reckon Your Lordship.

This Piece, My Lord, has not as yet appear'd in a French drefs to the World, tho it highly deferves to be printed in that univerfal Language, but however that is no lofs to Your Lordship, what ever it may be to others, Your Lordfhip being as well acquainted with the English Language as with their Manners, which we here look upon as an additional ornament, to a Perfon of Your Character and diftinction, efpecialy confidering to what height all true and polite Learning has arrived in that Nation.

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