PREFACE 
work. Accordingly they pretended 
to doubt the fuccefs of the fecond 
part, after having experienced that 
of the firft. After a thoufand dif- 
appointments, I have at length met 
with an honeft trader. I pleafe my- 
felf with the opinion that fortune 
has dire6led my fteps to a houfe 
where arts and letters are of fome 
confideration. 
It is in vain for me to attempt to 
deny it : the fuccefs of my firft pub- 
lication greatly furpaffed my expec- 
tation. It has no doubt been praifed 
much beyond its defert. In the 
midft of the eulogiums I have re- 
ceived, there were attacks to which 
I could 
