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RAPHAEL MENGS
107
offers to all talents parts proportioned to their ca-
pacity; and it is fufficient to imitate them with
the reasons I have endeavoured to explain as well
as I am able, and as my little practice of writing
and thequality ofthis little work, will permifme,
which finally is only a letter written with good
will, and with little leisure to reduce it to thebest
form, which unites with my confined abilities to
render it more imperfect. Fromwhence I intreat
you to exculpate me with the public, and to sup-
ply with some explanations the obscurity of my
mode of expressing myself; because to give grea-
ter clearness to my ideas I thould have occasion
to extend them, and to write a book ofprecepts; a
thing which on no account I would dare to un-
dertake.
I humbly osfer you this little which my oc-
cupations have permitted me, and in that whicli
would be more useful than words and writings,
command him who owes you every, esteem
and is, desirous to serve you.
Aranjuez. 4th March 1776.
107
offers to all talents parts proportioned to their ca-
pacity; and it is fufficient to imitate them with
the reasons I have endeavoured to explain as well
as I am able, and as my little practice of writing
and thequality ofthis little work, will permifme,
which finally is only a letter written with good
will, and with little leisure to reduce it to thebest
form, which unites with my confined abilities to
render it more imperfect. Fromwhence I intreat
you to exculpate me with the public, and to sup-
ply with some explanations the obscurity of my
mode of expressing myself; because to give grea-
ter clearness to my ideas I thould have occasion
to extend them, and to write a book ofprecepts; a
thing which on no account I would dare to un-
dertake.
I humbly osfer you this little which my oc-
cupations have permitted me, and in that whicli
would be more useful than words and writings,
command him who owes you every, esteem
and is, desirous to serve you.
Aranjuez. 4th March 1776.