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Engraved by I Heath

Painted by Sir. Joshua Reynolds.

SOAME JENYNS ESQ.

Published by Tadell, Strand Dec1.1789.

346

WORKS

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SOAME JENYNS, Esq.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

INCLUDING SEVERAL PIECES

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,

SHORT SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF
THE AUTHOR'S FAMILY,

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LENOX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

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.

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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

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