prived the plan of the advantage of
appearing entirely original. On a
perusal of the works which appeared
in the interim, apparently written un-
der similar impressions, she, however,
did not find her own ideas so much
anticipated by any of them, as to in-
duce her to suppress the present work,
or even to make the smallest alteration
in its contents. Her chief design in
the publication is so fully explained in
the Introduction to the first edition-
that she thinks it proper to present it
to the reader in its original dress.

BATH,

NOV. 29, 1800.

ΤΟ

MR. ROBINSON,

BOOKSELLER, PATER-NOSTER-ROW.

SIR,

HAVING been lately dragged to London

on the business of my ward, who is now (thank Heaven!) nearly of age, it was my first care to look out for a pleasant fituation. For this purpose I repaired to Pater-NofterRow, that birth-place of the Muses, that fountain of learning from which the perennial stream of literature for ever flows. The very name of the place has, from my earliest years, infpired my veneration; and I do affure you, the thoughts of vifiting it tended to reconcile me to the journey more than any other confideration. Well, fir, though I muft con

fefs

OF

MODERN PHILOSOPHERS.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

BY

ELIZABETH HAMILTON,

Author of "The Letters of a Hindoo Rajah,”

VOL. 1, THIRD EDITION,

"Ridiculum acri

"Fortius et melius magnas plerumque fecat res."

"Ridicule shall frequently prevail,

"And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail.”

HOR.

FRANCIS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR G. G. AND J. ROBINSON,

PATERNOSTER-ROW; .

By R. Noble, in the Old Bailey.

1801.

249. n. 55.

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