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PREFACE.
the most useful of the kind, by having the desired effect he shall esteem himself sufficiently rewarded.
With regard to the Dissuasion, I leave the Reader to judge, after having read it over cooly and impartially, whether it ought to be approved or disapproved; if the former, it will no doubt meet with his protection in publick. But I have something to ask, which I beg may not be refused, and that is, if you have not a fund of patience laid up in store, before you begin to peruse it, you are requested to lay it aside, until you have.
There is one small part of it taken from Postlethwayt's Dictio-
nary
