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PREFACE.

TH

HE fermon which gave rife to the publication

of thefe, having been offered to the world as a fermon of Yorick's, I hope the most ferious reader will find nothing

to offend him, in my continuing these two volumes under the fame title: left it fhould be otherwise, I have added a second title-page

with the real name of the

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author

author-the firft will ferve the bookfeller's purpose, as Yorick's name is poffibly of the two the more known;and the second will eafe the minds of those who see a jeft, and the danger which lurks under it, where no jeft was

meant.

I fuppofe it is needless to inform the public, that the reason of printing these fer

mons, arises altogether from

the

the favourable reception, which the fermon given as a fample of them in TRISTRAM SHANDY met with from the world-That fermon was printed by itself fome years ago, but could find neither purchasers nor readers; fo that I apprehended little hazard from a promise I made upon its republication, "That if the fermon " was liked, these fhould be

"alfo at the world's fervice;"

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