Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by I.Heath. SOAME JENYNS ESQ* Published by T Cadell, Strand Dec1.1789. THE WORKS O F SOAME LEN Y N S, Esq. IN FOUR VOLUMES. INCLUDING SEVERAL PIECES NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, SHORT SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF AND ALSO OF HIS LIFE; BY CHARLES NALSON COLE, Esq. THE SECOND EDITION. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND. WILLIAM HEBERDEN, M.D. EDICATIONS in general DEL are fo many facrifices of praise, laid upon án altar erected for him to whom they are offered, at the expence of truth, one of the most aimable virtues. All the excellencies of human nature, which form the characteristic differences between VOL. I. 2 good good and bad men, are indifcriminately configned to him to whose honor the rite is performed. Hence a fad reverfe of characters is handed down to pofterity; and those, the remembrance of, whom should have ended with their lives, ftand recorded in their deaths as the distinguished actors, as well as patrons, of all that is praise-worthy. I know, Sir, that you, as well as myself, condemn such facrifices, and those who offer them. After |