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that I have not reafon to complain, befides, of the inequality of 

 his temper, of inconciufivenefs in his Writings, and of fome er- 

 rors in conduél, as he himfelf has publiihed thefe for the pur- 

 pofe of condemning them. But, vvhere is the man, where is the 

 Writer, where is, efpecialiy, the unfortunate Author, who has 

 no fault to reproach himfelf with. John- James has difcufled 

 queftions fo fufceptible of being argued on either fide ; he was 

 confcious of polîèffiiig, at once, a mind fo great, and of being 

 fubjefted to a fortune fo deplorable : he had to encounter wants 

 fo preffing, and friends fo perfidious, that he was frequently 

 forced out of the common road. But even when he deviates, 

 -and becomes the vidim of others, or of himfelf, you fee him for 

 ever forgetting his own miferies, that he may devote his undi- 

 vided atfention to thofe of Mankind. He is uniformly the de- 

 fender of their rights, and the advocate of the miferable. There 

 might be infcribed on his tomb thofe afFeding words from a 

 Book on which he pronounces an elogium fo fublime, and of 

 which he carried always about him fome feleft paflages, during 

 the laft years of his life : His Sins, which are many, are for- 

 given; FOR HE LOVED MUCH. 



(9) Cofmo de Medicis- Here is the decifiqn pronounced upon 

 him by Philip d& Comminesy the Plutarch of his age, in refpefl of 

 native fimplicity. 



" Cofm6.de Medicis, who was the chief of that houfe, and, in- 

 " deed, founded it, a man v/orthy of being named among the 

 *' greateft of the Great, efpecialiy when his condition in life is 

 " taken into the account, namely, that of a merchant, has cort- 

 ♦* veyed his name to a family the moft illuftrious, I think, that 

 "ever was in the Wojld. For their very fervants, under the 

 *' fan(ftion of that name of Meùicis^ pofTcfTed fo much credit, 

 " that I fliould hardly be believed, were I to relate the inftances- 



" which I have feen of it in France, and in England I knew 



*' one of their fervants, Gcra>d ^annefe by name, who was 

 " ahnoft the only inllrument of fuppôrting King Ediuard IV. 



