PREFACE. V 



mell-polijljcd Gem. 'To /peak truths he has made the SubjeSl fo 

 77iuch his own by the Rejinement of his Remarksy the yujlmfs of 

 his Reafoiiiitgy and the Light he has diffufed through it, that it 

 miijl have the Merit of an Original ; at leaft the Reader will 

 be divided to whom he JJjall render mojl Tha?iksy whether to him 

 who has give7t the Food^ or to him who has prepard and fet it 

 before us with fo much Elega?ice and Order. This at leajl is 

 our Author s Praife.'-—^—-'The Tranjlator has endeavoured to do 

 him as much yujlice, in the following Sheets, as he has done his 

 great Original-, fenfible of the Danger of fo difficult an E?tter- 

 prize, but projnpted to it in hopes of making his Merit more 

 blown. He tranfated the Work, that the Treafures it contains 

 may be gathered by thofe who are fo unfortunate as to want this 

 Afftflance to obtai?t them. He has been as faithful to his Author, 

 as the Languages will allow, judging that to be the furefl way of 

 doing him yuflice. In fome Places howiver he has tfed (as 

 all Tranjlators muf) a difcretionaty Power. Every Art has 

 tech?2ical Terii.s, or Words of its own ; thefe he has prefej'ved i?i 

 the Tranfation, the Englifh affording 7io?ie adequate to them. 

 He has given no Notes or Comments, imagining the Original can^ 

 ajtd hoping the Trajifation will, wa?Jt 7ime. Of this howe'cer his 

 Readers will be the be ft fudges ; he will fay 710 ?nore of hitn- 

 felf, but that he has e7ideavoured to 771 ake the Work as perfeB 

 as he could ; a7id for this Reafon will be very ready to o%vn aTiy 

 Faults that 7nay be pointed out ; for, though defirous of Appro- 

 bation, he is 7tot vain enough to tlmik, there 7nay not be root7i 

 for Cenfure. . , 



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