TO THE HONORABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND SHUTE BARRINGTON LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM &c. &c. MY LORD, IN availing myself of Your Lordship's permission to inscribe to you the following volumes, I shall not offend your modesty by any attempt to proclaim to the world, what the world every where acknowledges, Your Lordship's eminent virtues. I shall be content if I can hide some part of my own deficiency in the splendor of so great and good a name. Your Lordship is well acquainted with the originals, from which the following Translation is drawn. But while all fami |