DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4569#0008
TO THE READER,
owing entirely to this gentleman, who was fo indefatigable in his attention to fee
every thing done accurately, that there is fcarce a meafure in this work which
he did not take himfelf.
At the fame time that, by this declaration, I difclaim any Ihare of merit which
the publick, uninformed of the truth, might have given me, I cannot help
in return indulging my vanity with a circumftance, which I am fure does me
honour, viz. that my being the publifher of thefe meets is owing to Mr. Daw-
kins his friendfhip for me, who while he highly enjoys the pleafure of contri-
buting to the advancement of arts in this manner, declines the profitswhich may
arife from this publication.
If I venture to mention this fingle inftance of my friend's regard for me, I
lhall compound with him for that liberty, by fuppreffing others without number:
To join Mr. Dawkins' name with mine (where I muft (till continue to be the only
gainer) is, I fear, little lefs than impertinent, but it is the impertinence of gra-
titude, which, like love, is never more aukward in it's declarations than when it is
moft fincere and in earneft.
OBERT WOOD.
THE
owing entirely to this gentleman, who was fo indefatigable in his attention to fee
every thing done accurately, that there is fcarce a meafure in this work which
he did not take himfelf.
At the fame time that, by this declaration, I difclaim any Ihare of merit which
the publick, uninformed of the truth, might have given me, I cannot help
in return indulging my vanity with a circumftance, which I am fure does me
honour, viz. that my being the publifher of thefe meets is owing to Mr. Daw-
kins his friendfhip for me, who while he highly enjoys the pleafure of contri-
buting to the advancement of arts in this manner, declines the profitswhich may
arife from this publication.
If I venture to mention this fingle inftance of my friend's regard for me, I
lhall compound with him for that liberty, by fuppreffing others without number:
To join Mr. Dawkins' name with mine (where I muft (till continue to be the only
gainer) is, I fear, little lefs than impertinent, but it is the impertinence of gra-
titude, which, like love, is never more aukward in it's declarations than when it is
moft fincere and in earneft.
OBERT WOOD.
THE