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 liberty. I shall, consequently, be deprived of all means of either doing for myself or others. Your further indulgence will, in the end, be better for yourself, and add to the obligation of your humble servant.

My Lord,

I have been lately informed by the proprietor of the World, that two papers in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre;—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending: but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Seven years my lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door: during which time I have been pushing