Printed for L. DAVIS and C. REYMERS, against M DCC LX. ) THE PREFAСЕ. THE present work appears with confidence in the kingdom that gave birth to it: and will be well fatisfied with its fortune, if it meets with as favourable a reception as has been indulged to all the other compositions of its author. The high esteem which Mr. de Voltaire has always discovered for the English, is a Proof how ambitious he is of their approbation. It is now grown familiar to him, but then he is not tired with it; and indeed one would be apt to think that this circumA stance |