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Barlow ft.

you will, you

"Don't thrash me with it, but if you
If I do, said F. Ill be _D_d.""

may,

Published as the Act directs. Octo. 29, 1787 by G. Kearsley, N.46, Fleet Street, London.

ENLARGED, AND ORNAMENTED WITH SEVERAL PLATES,
FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS.

THE

BEAUTIES OF STERNE;

INCLUDING MANY OF HIS

LETTERS AND SERMONS,

ALL HIS

PATHETIC TALES,

HUMOROUS DESCRIPTIONS,

AND MOST DISTINGUISHED

OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE.

SELECTED FOR THE HEART OF

SENSIBILITY.

Dear Senfibility! fource inexhausted of all that's precious
in our joys, or coftly in our forrows! thou chaineft thy
martyr down upon his bed of straw-and 'tis thou who
lifts him up to HEAVEN! Eternal fountain of

our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee. S. Journey, p. 226.

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HENRY SMITH, Esq.

SECRETARY TO THE HON. THE BOARD

OF ORDNANCE,

IN THE

KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

SIR,

A DEDICATION wears, at all times, fo much the air of flattery, that 'tis hard to distinguish between the language dictated by Sincerity, and the fawnings of the Parafite-between the respect paid by perfonal gratitude to perfonal merit, and the aukward imitations of it offered at the foot of Wealth and Title by the hungry expectant.

I fhall, for these reasons, only make oneshort obfervation on the propriety of my offering these sheets to your patronageThat although nothing doubting but the innate beauty of my favourite author, is capable of attracting the admiration and A 2 feizing

feizing the attention of every rank and age --yet having had an opportunity (through the honour of a perfonal intimacy with you) of obferving, not only how reducible, but reduced to practice, is that philanthropy he fo fweetly recommends in every page of his writings,-I have beer. induced to prefix your name, as a fit head to fuch a body-feeling with what force precept comes home to the heart, ftrengthened by fuch an example.

I have therefore to beg you will attribute the liberty I here take with your name to its proper motive-a defire to hold up to the world a mirror, in which they fhould endeavour to behold their own likenefsand to believe me, with every fentiment of gratitude and refpect,

SIR,

Your moft obliged,

And most humble fervant,

A. F.

PREFACE.