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Materials have been transcribed from and checked against first editions, where possible. See the Sources section. THE Author begs leave to acknowledge to his Subscribers, that they have a further claim upon him for Two Volumes more than these delivered to them now, and which nothing but ill health could have prevented him, from having ready along with these.
The Work will be compleated and delivered to the Subscribers early the next Winter. SIRE, it is not well done; and much does it grieve me, 'tis the monarch of a people so civilized and courteous, and so renown'd for sentiment and fine feelings, that I have to reason with—. WHEN I had finish'd my dinner, and drank the King of France's health, to satisfy my mind that I bore him no spleen spleen , but, on the contrary, high honour for the humanity of his temper—I rose up an inch taller for the accommodation.
As I acknowledged this, I felt a suffusion of a finer kind upon my cheek—more warm and friendly to man, than 5 what Burgundy at least of two livres livre a bottle, which was such as I had been drinking could have produced.
