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A PARAPHRASE ON PART OF THE BOOK OF JOB.(25)
To the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Parker, Baron of Macclesfield, Lord
High Chancellor of Great Britain, etc. etc.
My Lord,
Though I have not the honour of being known to your lordship, I presume to
take a privilege which men of retirement are apt to think themselves in
possession of, as being the only method they have of making their way to
persons of your lordship's high station without struggling through
multitudes for access. I may possibly fail in my respect to your lordship,
even while I endeavour to show it most; but if I err, it is because I
imagined I ought not to make my first approach to one of your lordship's
exalted character with less ceremony than that of a dedication. It is
annexed to the condition of eminent merit, not to suffer more from the
malice of its enemies, than from the importunity of its admirers; and
perhaps it would be unjust, that your lordship should hope to be exempted
from the troubles, when you possess all the talents, of a patron.
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