. . udy; and alfo the greatQualities, which Nature feems to take a Pleafure tounite in your Perfon, to render you one of the moltilluftrious Ornaments of the wife Nobility of the Bri-iiJJj Nation, the Love and Profit of your Country, indoing which I fhould but pay what is really owing. ButI know, my Lord, that your Modefty is ib great, it can-not in the leaft bear the moft defervedPraiies, anymorethan you can the jufteft Thanks for the Favours whichyou beftow, and that there are fome Truths which of-fend you. Since then your Excellen
. . udy; and alfo the greatQualities, which Nature feems to take a Pleafure tounite in your Perfon, to render you one of the moltilluftrious Ornaments of the wife Nobility of the Bri-iiJJj Nation, the Love and Profit of your Country, indoing which I fhould but pay what is really owing. ButI know, my Lord, that your Modefty is ib great, it can-not in the leaft bear the moft defervedPraiies, anymorethan you can the jufteft Thanks for the Favours whichyou beftow, and that there are fome Truths which of-fend you. Since then your Excellency will not heark-en to the Juftice due to fuch a of Talentsand Qualities, which fliine in all yourConverfation andBehaviour, and which you alone feem to be ignorantof, but which you cannot hinder the publick Procla-mation of, I content myfelf to be a mute Spe&ator,and humble Admirer of your Virtues; and join myWifhes with thofe of your Country, which judge, thatthe Honours and Employments yoii areloaded withal,are fir beneath your Merits, THE. THE PREFACE iels with a jvurv jwfivmn vj ujc txeneru/cw uj loc Kj/aer OJ the Bath yt~h. \--~^r\ m England, by King George theFirft, I Jhall begin thisi^VA -with more numerous Remarks of the original Injiitutionof that Order., and of fome others, as well antient as mo-dern, of which L fhall have Occafion to (peak. I thought proper to com-pr ife them all in one Chapter, {which is divided into as many Sections,as there are Orders mentioned) to give a general View thereof, that theReader may carry, as it were, in his Eye the Refemblance of the Or-ders of one Country with thofe of another. My principal Care and Endeavour throughout this Work fhall be, torelate things juji as J found them myfelf, or have been informed of themby Terfous, whofe Honour and Credit may be depended on, without fuf-fering myfelf to be byajfed by the Prejudices of Country, Education, orReligion. This Rule 1 followed in my preceding Work, which met withthe
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