POGONOLOGIA
OR A
PHILOSOPHICAL and HISTORICAL
ESSAY
ON
BEARDS.
Translated from the French.
L’usage nous dérobe le vrai visage des choses.
Montaigne.
EXETER:
Printed by R. THORN.
AND SOLD BY
T. CADELL, in the Strand,
LONDON.
MDCCLXXXVI.
To Mr. B***,
King’s Counsel, Deputy Attorney General
to the Parliament of D***.
My friend,
TO load the beginning of one’s work with pompous titles is an honour that interest solicits and vanity easily grants; but to place the name of one’s friend there, and dedicate the fruit of a few leisure hours to him, is a homage so pure and disinterested, that modesty need not blush at it. Receive then this small testimony of my attachment and esteem, and allow me the pleasing satisfaction of publicly declaring, how much I am,
your friend,
J. A. D***.