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O quisquis volet impias
Cædes, aut rabiem tollere civicam:
Si quæret pater urbium
Subscribi statuis, indomitam audeat
Refrænare licentiam.Hor. Lib. III. Od. 24.
BY A PERSON OF QUALITY.
TO THE COUNTESS OF BERKELEY.
MADAM,
MY intention of prefixing your ladyship's name, is not, after the common form, to desire your protection of the following papers; which I take
- ↑ Mr. Steele, in the Tatler, No 5, speaking of this project, says, "It is written with the spirit of one who has seen the world enough to undervalue it with good-breeding. The author must certainly be a man of wisdom as well as piety, and have spent much time in the exercise of both. The real causes of the decay of the interest of religion are set forth in a clear and lively manner, without unseasonable passions; and the whole air of the book, as to the language, the sentiments, and the reasonings, shows it was written by one whose virtue sits easy about him, and to whom vice is thoroughly contemptible. It was said by one in company, alluding to that knowledge of the world this author seems to have. The man writes much like a Gentleman, and goes to Heaven with a very good mien."
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