Strenua nos exercet inertia: navibus atque

Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis, hic eft.

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ROM a diffidence of his own abilities,

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and from other motives not fo well founded, the Author of the following Let

ters thought it expedient, in the first edition,

to throw a flight veil over the real situation in which they were written: he imagined alfo, that by this means fome reflections, particularly those on gaming, might be introduced more naturally, and with a ftronger effect. But having been affured by those of whose friendship and judgment he is equally convinced, that the affumed character and feigned situation in the two first letters gave an air of fiction to the real incidents in the reft of the work, he has now restored those two letters to their original form,