e Celo defcendit γνωθι σεαυτον The proper Knowledge of Mankind is MAN. Juv. EDITION. LONDON: Printed for J. WAUGH, at the Turk's-Head in 1758. то SAMUEL LESINGHAM, Efq; Treasurer of St. Thomas's Hofpital. SIR, XXODESTY and Self-Diffidence M* are the allowed Characterifticks of Self-Knowledge. If my prefuming to addrefs this Piece to you may seem to discover more Affurance and Self-Confidence than be then comes a true Acquaintance with the Subject I write upon, I have only this to say; your known Condefcenfion and Candour have encouraged that Prefumption: Nor can any Thing animate an Address of this Nature more, than an Affurance that the Perfon to whom it is made, has fo good an Understanding in the practical Part of this Subject, as will incline him to excufe the Defects that may appear in the Management of it. But after all, SIR, my own Proficiency in this Science is fo poor, that I dare not be confident I am not wrong in my Views, with which I defire this fmall Tract may appear under your Patronage. That it may have a Refuge from the Petulence of Cenfure, an Encouragement in the Publication, and I, at the fame Time, an Opportunity of testifying my grateful Sense of many paft Favours, are my open and avowed ends herein. But ftill, whe ther ther an Ambition to be known to the World under the Advantage of your Friendship be not the fecret and true Motive, I cannot be certain. However, if in this Point I may be mistaken, there is another in which I think I cannot; and that is, that it is at least a pardonable Ambition; in which I fhall certainly ftand acquitted by every one who knows ter, the Delicacy of your Taste in the Choice of Friends, and the real Honour it does to thofe you are pleased to admit into that Number. your Charac But even this, SIR, your Penetration will foon difcover to proceed from the fame Vanity I before fufpected myfelf to be guilty of. And the World will judge, that I fpeak it rather to do myfelf Honour than you. However, I am beforehand with them in the Obfervation. And that I may not be tempted, in this Addrefs, to enhance a 3 your |