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THE

WORLD.

Volume I.

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TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

PH HILIP

EARL OF

CHESTERFIELD.

MY LORD,

TH

HATI prefume to dedicate the first volume of the WORLD to your Lordship will, I hope, be forgiven me. It is not enough that I can flatter myself with having been frequently honoured with your correfpondence; I would infinuate it to the public that, under the fanction of your Lordship's name, I may hope for a more favourable reception from my readers.

If it fhould be expected, upon this occafion, that I fhould point out which papers are your Lordship's, and which my own, I muft beg to be excufed; for

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