Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein T. CADELL, STRAND, AND C. DILLY, POULTRY, LONDON, M DCC XCIII. PREFACE. THE following Eísay is extracted from a French book, entitled "Effai fur la Felicité de la Vie à venir, par "C. L. de Villette." The Translator has felected those parts alone which feemed most calculated to awaken fuch ideas of the life to come, as it appears to have been the Author's principal aim to produce; and has ventured to make fome alterations and additions. To familiarize the joys of heaven to our imagination, without degrading them by too close a comparison with |