![]() This, my Lord, is for want of thinking Rightly if Men wou’d consider with Reason, they wou’d have another sort of Opinion, and Esteem of Dedications and wou’d believe almost every Great Man has enough to make him Worthy of all that can be said of him there. The most part of Dedications are charg’d with Flattery and if the World knows a Man has some Vices, they will not allow one to speak of his Virtues. ![]() ![]() Patron, one who financially supports an author Since the World is grown so Nice and Critical upon Dedications, and will Needs be Judging the Book, by the Wit of the Patron we ought, with a great deal of Circumspection, to chuse a Person against whom there can be no Exception and whose Wit, and Worth, truly Merits all that one is capable of saying upon that Occasion. ![]() ![]() To the Right Honourable the Lord Maitland ![]()
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