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ADVERTISEMENT ^' 



RESPECTING 



THE PRESENT EDITION, 



AND 



THE WORK IN GENERAL. 



THE firfl Edition of this Work, publiHied 

 in December 1784, was nearly out of print 

 in December 1785. It run it's natural courfe, 

 in about the fpace of a year, without my having 

 employed any one trick of the trade to pufF it off, 

 to accelerate the fale, or to fend it abroad for a 

 market : I may therefore flatter myfelf, that it has 

 been gracioufly received in my own Country. It 

 appears likewife to have been reliflied by ftran- 

 gers ; for, within thefe fix months, pirated im- 

 preflions of it have appeared at Geneva and Avig- 

 non ; and this literary plunder might have' injured 

 me, had not M. Laurent de Filiedeuily then Direc- 

 tor-general of the Prefs, now Intendant of Rouen, 

 and univerfally known for the ftriaicfb honour and 

 probity of charader, given, on my fimple requeft, 

 VOL. I. a the 



