Engraved by I Heath Painted by Sir. Joshua Reynolds. SOAME JENYNS ESQ. Published by Tadell, Strand Dec1.1789. 346 WORKS O F SOAME JENYNS, Esq. IN FOUR VOLUMES. INCLUDING SEVERAL PIECES NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, SHORT SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF то WILLIAM HEBERDEN, M.D. DEDICATIONS in general are fo many facrifices of praife, laid upon an altar erected for him to whom they are offered, at the expence of truth, one of the most aimable virtues. All the excellencies of human nature, which form the characteristic differences between VOL. I. a good good and bad men, are indifcriminately configned to him to whose honor the rite is performed. Hence a fad reverse of characters is handed down to pofterity; and those, the remembrance of whom should have ended with their lives, stand recorded in their deaths as the distinguished actors, as well as patrons, of all that is praife-worthy. I know, Sir, that you, as well as myself, condemn fuch facrifices, and those who offer them. After |