ADVERTISEMENT to the Third Edition. T HE readers of this and the former editions will perceive the publisher not behind hand in the gratitude he owes them-he has added to this edition above forty pages of new matter, which will be found equally worthy of their patronage and attention.He has not now a doubt remaining but this felection will place his gratitude for the COUNTENANCE with which his READERS have honoured him, in the most pleafing and confpicuous. point of view: and that it will, every hour, like the returning light of Heaven, difpel the mists of error and infenfibility from the foul, and illume the glorious profpe& of virtue and humanity to be the chief admiration of mankind. March 30, 1782. ADVERTISEMENT to the Seventh Edition. TH the Editor judged when he fat down to fele&t his beauties. Seven large Editions have now paffed the Prefs, which, in fo fhort a time, is a ftriking teft of its fuperior excellence over every other felection of profe beauties extant. Two pleasing Epitaphs from the Annual Regifter, are introduced into this Edition, which, with the pieces prefixed to the former Editions, are the best poetic productions that have yet appeared in praise of this favourite Author. December 1, 1782. A fubject for Compaffion, Croffes in Life, The Contraft, 105 222 143 16: 164 169 184 182 190 ΤΟΙ Trim's Explanation of the Fifth Commandment, 199 The Abuses of Conscience, a Sermon, Covetousness, 74 217 The Dwarf, 166 |
