first publication, but by rendering this as unexceptionable (in the external at least) as I possibly could. I should have been wanting to the public and myself, if the flattering encouragement I have already received had not prompted me to proceed with the work ; and if my alacrity in the further prosecution of it shall meet any check, it must arise only from those causes, which no human diligence can controul,

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Vos tamen O noftri ne fefináte libelli !

Si pof fata venit gloria, none propero.

END OF THE THIRD VOLUME,