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SKETCHES

OF THE

HISTORY OF M A N.

VOLUME I.

OF THE

HISTORY OF MA N.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

EDINBURGH:

Printed for W. CREECH, Edinburgh; and for
W. STRAHAN, and T. CA DEL L, London.

MDCCLXXIV.

901.2 K15a

V. 1

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PREFACE.

HE following work is the fubftance of various fpeculations, that occasionally amused the author, and enlivened his leifure-hours. It is not intended for the learned; they are above it: nor for the vulgar; they are below it. It is intended for men, who, equally removed from the corruption of opulence, and from the depreffion of bodily labour, are bent on useful knowledge; who, even in the delirium of youth, feel the dawn of patriotism, and who in riper years enjoy its meridian warmth. To fuch men this work is dedicated; and that they may profit by it, is the author's ardent wish, and probably will be while any spirit remains in him to form a wish.

May not he hope, that this work, child of his gray hairs, will furvive, and bear teftimony for him to good men, that even a laborious calling, which left him not many leifure-hours, never banished from his mind, that he would little deferve to be of the human fpecies, were he indifferent about his fellow

creatures:

Homo fum: humani nihil a me alienum puto.

VOL. I.

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