S Imilitude of manners and studies is usually men-. tioned as one of the strongest motives to af fection and esteem; but the paffionate veneration I have for your Lordship, I think, flows from an admiration of qualities in You, of which, in the whole course of VOL. II. A these these papers, I have acknowledged myself incapable. While I busy myself as a stranger upon earth, and can pretend to no other than being a looker-on, You are confpicuous in the busy and polite world, both in the world of men, and that of letters: While I am filent and unobserved in publick meetings, You are admired by all that approach you as the life and genius of the conversation. What an happy conjunction of different talents meets in him whose whole difcourse is at once animated by the strength and force of reason, and adorned with all the grace and embellishments of wit: When learning irradiates - common life, it is then in its highest use and perfection; and it is to such as Your Lordship, that the sciences owe the esteem which they have |