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PREFACE.

HAVE fomewhere heard or read,

that the Preface before a book, like the portico before a houfe, fhould be contrived, fo as to catch, but not detain the attention of those who defire admiffion to the family within, or leave to look over the collection of pictures made by one whofe opportunities of obtaining them we know to have been not unfrequent. I wish not to keep my readers long from fuch intimacy with the manners of Dr. Johnson, or fuch knowledge of his fentiments as thefe pages can convey. To urge my diftance from Eng land as an excuse for the book's being ill written, would be ridiculous; it might indeed serve as a just reason for

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