SPECTATOR. BIBLIOTHEQUE S. J. Les Fontaines 60 - CHANTILLY. VOLUME the SECOND. EDINBURGH: Printed for JOHN BELL, MDCCLXXVI. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LORD HALLIFAX. MY LORD, SIMILITUDE of manners and studies is ufually mentioned as one of the strongest motives to affection and efteem; but the paffionate veneration I have for your Lordship, I think, flows from an admiration of qualities in You, of which, in the whole courfe of thefe papers, I have acknowledged myself incapable. While I bufy myself as a ftranger upon earth, and can pretend to no other than being a looker-on, You are confpicuous in the bufy and polite world, both in the world of men, and that of letters: While I am filent and unobferved in publick meetings, You are admired by all that approach you as the life and genius of the converfation. What an happy conjunction of different talents meets in him whofe whole difcourfe is at once animated by the ftrength and force of reason, and adorned with all the grace and embellifhments of wit: When learning irradiates common life, it is then in its highest ufe and perfection; and it is to fuch as your Lordship, that the fciences owe the esteem which they have with the active part of mankind. Knowledge of books in reclufe men, VÓL. II. a 2 is |