ADVERTISEMENT то THE FOURTH EDITION. E VERY Author, who entertains a due degree of reverence for the tribunal before which he is to appear, or who confiders the importance of diffeminating doctrines and opinions through various parts of the world, which may operate on the happinefs of others when he is no more, will be anxious to correct his mistakes, and to improve his Compofitions, whenever the public favour, calling for a new impreffion, affords him an opportunity for a revifal. In the former editions this opportunity has been embraced; and who is there who must not fay with Demea in Terence, Nunquam ita quifquam bene fubductâ ratione ad vitam fuit, Quin res, ætas, ufus femper aliquid adportet novi." But it was found, that the former purchasers began to confider the great alterations as, in fome degree, injurious; for which reafon, very little alteration is made in this Edition. It is revised and corrected, and A 2 a word |