The Dedication^ 
Ibme Compliments for Favours I 
, never received,, and without pre- 
1 tending to lie under Obligations 
You never burthenedme with. 
This frank Declaration^ I hope, 
will fecure me from the Imputation 
of Flattery, in whatever I fliall fay 
! concerning You. 
If the Knowledge of Men and 
Things does only defer vetheName 
of true Learning; which all dif* 
cerning Men allow. You hav e had 
.as great Opportunities to make 
yourfelf Mafter of it as rnoff, ha- 
ving for a conliderable Number of 
Years filled up the Poll of a Sub- 
Governer of diverfe little Worlds, 
' But if learning be confined to La-> 
j tin^ Greeky and the Scholaflical 
Sciences y It is eafilytobe proved, 
that many whole undebauched na- 
1 tural Parts, with fome additional 
I Knowledge of the World, would 
i A ^ have 
