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To THE READEIi 



ON THE PVBLICATION OF THE 



NINTH EDITION. 



T would be a tacit acknowledgment of 

 the author's total inlcnfibility to every 

 gratification of ambition, was he to omit the 

 communication of acknowledgments that, in 

 their general difFufion, contribute fo very much 

 to his own honour. And he muft ever con- 

 fider it no fmall. compliment to his endeavours 

 that the work is univerfally known to have 

 been crowned with the moft perfedl fuccefs. 

 The very great and almoft unlimited porlioa 

 of fupport that has fo Angularly fanftioned its 

 birth, fuSiciently demonftrates the abfolute 

 want of fuch publication. 



This pleafing incenfe to literary vanity 

 could be increafed only by the conftantly 



accumulating 



