MISCELLANIES

ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

To which is prefixed,

An ACCOUNT of the
AUTHOR, and his WORKS,
By HIMSELF.

Per quefto variar la Natura e Bella.

From the Original of M. FORMEY, perpetual Secretary
to the Royal Academy of BERLIN.

LONDON:
Printed for J. HINTON, at the King's-Arms, in

Newgate-Street.

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HE following Account of myself was required, and the Reader, I hope, will perceive, that, whatever Complaifance there may be in it to others, there is little to myfelf. It is a kind of Confeffion extorted from me, and I am the more difpofed to it, from the manifeft Improbability that I fhall henceforth make any confiderable Addition to the Number of my Works. A Conftitution, impaired by twenty Years of Infirmities, forbids me to form extenfive Schemes, and entertain diftant Hopes. I, from my Soul, fubmit to the Difpenfations of Providence, ever wife and gracious; and fhall now enter on a Detail, which,

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