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As the profeft defign of this

work is to entertain its readers in general, without giving offence to any particular perfon, it would be difficult to find out fo proper a patron for it as

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yourself, there being whose merit is more univerfally acknowledged by all parties, and who has made himself more friends, and fewer enemies. Your great abilities, and unqueftioned integrity, in those high employments which you have paffed through, would not have been able to have raised you this general approbation, had they not been accompanied with that moderation in an high fortune, and that affability of manners, which are so conspicuous through all parts of your life. Your averfion to any oftentatious arts of setting to show

thofe great fervices which you have done the public, has not likewife a little contributed to that universal acknowledgment which is paid you by your country.

The confideration of this part of your character, is that which hinders me from enlarging on those extraordinary talents which have given you so great a figure in the British Senate, as well as on that elegance and politenefs which appear in your

more

retired conversation.

I

should be unpardonable, if, after what I have faid, I fhould

longer detain you with an addrefs of this nature: I cannot, however, conclude it without owning those great obligations which you have laid upon,

SIR,

YOUR MOST OBEDIENT,

HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE SPECTATOR.

A Description of jealousy

No. 170

On zeal

On atheism

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