As some part of my subject led me to consider the advantages of our

excellent constitution in comparison of others; my thoughts were naturally turned to Your Majesty, as its warmest friend and most powerful protector: and as the whole is intended, to recommend the practice of virtue, as the means of happiness; to whom could I address it with so much propriety, as to a Prince, who illustrates and enforces

the precepts of the moralist by his life.

John Hawkesworth.


CONTENTS

Volume First [CHAP. I.] [CHAP. II.] [CHAP. III.] [CHAP. IV.] [CHAP. V.] [CHAP. VI.] [CHAP. VII.] [CHAP. VIII.] [CHAP. IX] [CHAP. X.] Volume Second [CHAP. XI.] [CHAP. XII.] [CHAP. XIII.] [CHAP. XIV.] [CHAP. XV.] [CHAP. XVI.] [CHAP. XVII.] [CHAP. XVIII.] [CHAP. XIX.]