I have here a fair occasion to celebrate those sublime qualities, of which
a whole nation is sensible, were it not inconsistent with the design of my
present application. By the just discharge of your great employments, your
lordship may well deserve the prayers of the distressed, the thanks of
your country, and the approbation of your royal master: this indeed is a
reason why every good Briton should applaud your lordship; but it is
equally a reason why none should disturb you in the execution of your
important affairs by works of fancy and amusement. I was therefore induced
to make this address to your lordship, by considering you rather in the
amiable light of a person distinguished for a refined taste of the polite
arts, and the candour that usually attends it, than in the dignity of your
public character.
The greatness and solemnity of the subjects treated of in the following
work cannot fail in some measure to recommend it to a person who holds in
the utmost veneration those sacred books from which it is taken; and would
at the same time justify to the world my choice of the great name prefixed
to it, could I be assured that the undertaking had not suffered in my
hands.
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