Reliquiae juveniles : miscellaneous thoughts in prose and verse, on natural, moral and divine subjects ; written chiefly in younger years . T H E PREFACE. ! S every Man has fome Amufe-menfs for an Kour of Leifu-pe,I have chofen Matkematical Sa-ence, Philofopky and P<?£#, formine j and the Fruits of fomeof thofe Hours have been com-municated to the World. I ac-knowledge my Obligation tothe prefent Age, which has given a favourable Accep-tarice to the Lyrick Poems printed in my Youth, theplain Rudiments of Geography and Ajironomy, and theTreatife of Logick, publifhed fome Years ago, and totho
Reliquiae juveniles : miscellaneous thoughts in prose and verse, on natural, moral and divine subjects ; written chiefly in younger years . T H E PREFACE. ! S every Man has fome Amufe-menfs for an Kour of Leifu-pe,I have chofen Matkematical Sa-ence, Philofopky and P<?£#, formine j and the Fruits of fomeof thofe Hours have been com-municated to the World. I ac-knowledge my Obligation tothe prefent Age, which has given a favourable Accep-tarice to the Lyrick Poems printed in my Youth, theplain Rudiments of Geography and Ajironomy, and theTreatife of Logick, publifhed fome Years ago, and tothofe fcattered Efays ofPhihfophy which I put together laft. x Tbe PREFACE. Iaft Year. Thefe Gleanings of Verje, and occafionalThoiights cu MifceUaneoas Su^jecls, wbich have beengrowing under niy Hands for Thirty Years, are nowcollecled for a Prefent to the Publick, under the En-couragement it has given me to expect the fameCandour. T h a t the Compofure of Verfe is not beneath theDignity even of fublime and facred Characters, ap-pears in thc Example of Davld the Prophet and theKing ; to which, if I fhould add Mofes and Sohmon^it would ftill ftrengthen the Argument, and fupportthe Honour of this Art: And how far Poefy has beenmade ferviceable to the Temple and the Intereft ofReligion, has been fet in a fufficient Light by feveralPens; nor necd I repeat here what is written in thePfeface to my Book of Poems on that Subjecl:. But Imuft confefs it needs fome Apology, that when I hadtold the World Twenty-nve Years ago that I expec-ted the future Part of my Lifc would be free from theService of the Mufe, I ftiould ncw difcover my Weak-nefs, and let
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