Miscellaneous Works of the late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield: consisting of letters to his friends, never before printed, and various other articles. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of his Life. ... By M. Maty

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rltmepfy §Atoati2 MISCELLANEOUS WORKS O F LORD CHESTERFIELD: WITH DR. MATY'S MEMOIRS OF HIS LORDSHIP'S LIFE. VOLUME THE SECOND. Ipsse enim familiæ i'ua quasi ornamenta ac monumenta servabant, et ad usum, si quis ejusdem generis cecidisset, et ad memonam laudum domesticarum, et ad illustrandam nobilitatem suam. Cicero. Memoirs from those of Philip de Comines, down to the innumerable ones in the reign of Lewis XIV . have been of great use, and thrown great light upon particular parts of History. Chesterfield. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF THE LATE PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD: CONSISTING OF LETTERS to his FRIENDS, never before printed, And VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE, TENDING TO ILLUSTRATE THE CIVIL, LITERARY, AND POLITICAL HI STORY OF HIS TIME.

By As. MATT, M. D. LATE PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND SECRETARY TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. DUBLIN. Printed for Me(Irs.W.WATsoN.WHiTESToNE,S le at er, Ch ambiuli mt, Pott Fitzsimons, Corcoran, J. Hoey,Willi ams,W.Colles, W.Wilson, Flin, E. Lynch, Mon crieife, Porter, Walker, Jen kin, Burnet, Exshaw, R.Jackson, Gilbert, Spotswood,Hallhead, Armitage, Mills, Faulkner, Wog an, E.Cross,Beatty and Jackson, J. Coll es, White, Grueber, Hillary, Magee, and M'Kenly. MDCCLXXVII. MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. I. FOG'S JOURNAL* Saturday, Jan. 17, 1736. N° 376. JL A M not of the opinion of those, who think that our ancestors were in every respect wiser than we, and who reject every new invention as chimerical, and brand it with the name of project. On the contrary, I am per suaded, that most things are still capable of improvement; for which reason I always give a fair and impartial hear ing to all new proposals, and have often, in the course of my life, found great advantage by so doing.

I very early took Mr. Ward's Drop, notwithstanding the great discouragement it met with, in its infancy, from an honourable author, eminent for his political sagacity, who asserted it to be liquid popery and Jacobitism. I reaped great benefit from it, and recommended it to so many of my friends, that I question whether the author of that great specific is more obliged to any one man in the kingdom than myself, excepting one. I have likewise, as well as my brother Caleb f , great hopes of public advantage, arising from the skill and dis coveries of that ingenious operator, Dr. Taylor, notwith- Vol. II. B standing * This was one of the weekly publications against Sir R. Walpole's administration. It was first intitled Mist's Journal. 1 suspect, that Lord Chesterfield had, several times before, lent his hand to the writers of this witty paper ; but I have no authotity to assert it.