Aut similet jucunda et idonea vitæ.-Hor. de Art. Poet. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR H. D. SYMONDS, T. HURST, J. WALKER, J. SCATCHERD, A. AND J. BLACK ΤΟ ΤΗΣ RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY BOYL E.* SIR, As the professed design of this work is to entertain its readers in general, wi!bout giving offence to any particular person, it would be difficult to find out so proper a patron for it as yourself, there being none whose merit is more universally acknowledged by all parties, and who bas made himself more friends and fewer enemies. Your great abilities, and unquestioned integrity, in those high employments which you have passed through, would not have been able to have raised you this general approbation, bad they not been accompanied with that moderation in an bigb fortune, and that affability of manners, which are so conspicuous through all parts of your life. Your aversion to any ostentatious arts of setting to show those great A 2 *He was the son of CHARLES Lord CLIFFORD. He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer to King WILLIAM in March 1701; and continued in that office till Feb. 12, 1707-8, when he was made one of the principal Secretaries of State, in which station he remained till Sept. 20, 1710. On the accession of GEORGE I. Mr. BOYLE was created Lord CARLETON, and soon after made President of the Council. He died, unmarried, March 14, 1724-5. |