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viii masterly pieces of its kind in any language, and held in the highest estimation, by the most sensible and judicious part of the kingdom.—

The modesty which is ever the companion of true merit, would by no means admit our author to think of a parallel between this history and the travels of Captain Gulliver.Even to say he does not, is a sort of presumption; as it is tacitly acknowledging the possibility of such a comparison.—But the very same modesty induces him to hope, that in the course of the following sheets, the reader will not sit down to an entertainment utterly contemptible, for then it would be an unpardonable piece of ill-breeding to think of setting it be-