Vlll PREFACE. 



kindnefs to his memory in obtruding them 

 upon the public ; none to the public in fwel- 

 ling out books with materials of no intrinfic 

 value. It is only zeal without judgment, 

 and the enthufiafm of partiality, which can 

 take pleafure in reading a great man's letters, 

 which might have been thofe of any toler- 

 ably educated mind, on which genius had 

 never fhone. 



Biography of recently departed Eminence 

 is apt to want characleriftic truth, fince it is 

 generally written either by a near relation, 



Who writes to fhare the fame of the deceafed, 



So high in merit, and to him fo dear ! 



Such dwell on praifes which they think they fhare *j 



or by an highly obliged friend, whom 

 gratitude and affection render blindly par- 

 tial, and who is influenced by a defire of 

 gratifying, with a defcription of all-excel- 

 ing endowment and angelic excellence, 



* Young's Night Thoughts. 



the 



