vlii PREFACE. 



if die number of rules fliould be thought 

 too great to be fuddenly comprehended, I 

 fhall not deny it, but at the fame time 1 

 flatter myfelf that many of them will, 

 from time to time, be confulted as diffi- 

 culties occur, and often (hew, or at leaft 

 {uggcO: fome remedy. 

 , In fhort it may happen tliat this treatifc 

 niay be fuddenly cenfured, and flowly 

 found ufeful j or may without either praife 

 or cenfure fleep in obfcurity. But, while 

 I am convinced of the intention with 

 which.it was wrote, and of opinion that it 

 can at leaft do no injury to the caufe which 

 produced it, I Ihall not add folicitude about 

 its credit, to the trouble which it has al- 

 ready coll me; I do not fhew it to the 

 publick with the over-valuing fondnefs of 

 a parent for a child of his own begetting, 

 but only offer it as a foundling whofe af- 



^|)ecl gave fome hopes of its proving ufe- 

 ful to its country : I have wrapped it up 

 in fuch homely drefs as came readiell to 



^'^my haiid, and in this deliver it to be edu- 



^cated according to its talents. 



5 CON- 



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