A Dissertation upon Parties

Abstract

SAS foon as the demand of the public made it neceffary to collect the following papers together, and to prepare a fecond edition of them, I took the refolution of addreffing them to you. The ftyle of my dedication will be very different from that, which is commonly employed to perfons in your ftation. But if you find nothing agreeable in the ftyle, you may find perhaps fomething ufeful, fomething that will deferve your ferious reflection, in the matter of it. I fhall compare you neither to BURLCICH, nor GODOLPHIN. Let me not prophane the tombs of the dead, to raife altars to the living. I fhall make you no compliments on the wifdom of your adminiftration, nor on the wonders you have performed, to the honor and advantage of this kingdom, in the courfe of fourteen, or fifteen years, either at home, or abroad. I fhall leave thefe copious themes to others, and fhall confine myfelf to reafons of another kind, that induced me to this dedication. If thefe reafons prove fufficient to convince the public of the extreme propriety of it, I have all that I propofe to myfelf. Give me leave to prefent to you, in one fhort view, the general defign of thefe little effays. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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