“I have long intended to write to you, but have been prevented by a continual succession of unavoidable occupation and bodily indisposition, and sometimes by the junction of both.
“Leo’s reckoning is now made, and he must be sent to his
account with all his imperfections. In the course of a few days after this
comes to hand you will receive a copy, which, from its size, would terrify a
man of much less occupation than yourself; and which you will naturally lay
aside, till you can muster courage and find time to make so formidable an
attack. Of the reception of this work I am, in many respects, doubtful; but I
do not suffer my apprehensions to render me miserable. I have taken all the
pains in my power, to make it deserving of the public notice; and have
endeavoured to express
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