ADVERTISEMEMT. V 



subject of the following sheets. But if any 

 should require one, I take the liberty of 

 delivering it in the words of my ever re- 

 gretted friend : 



4 From a partial consideration of things, 

 ' we are very apt to criticise what we 

 6 ought to admire ; to look upon as useless 

 4 what perhaps we should own to be of 

 e infinite advantage to us, did we see a 

 ' little farther ; to be peevish where we 



* ought to give thanks; and at the same 

 e time to ridicule those, who employ their 

 6 time and thoughts in examining what 

 6 we were, i. e. some of us most assuredly 

 s were, created and appointed to study. 



* In short, we are too apt to treat the 

 ' Almighty worse than a rational man 



* would treat a good mechanic ; whose 

 ' works he would either thoroughly exa- 

 6 mine, or be ashamed to find any fault 

 6 with them. This is the effect of a par- 

 ' tial consideration of Nature ; but he who 



* has candor of mind, and leisure to look 

 ' farther, will be inclined to cry out ; 



