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Excerpt from The Works of George Lord Lyttelton, Vol. 1 of 3: Formerly Printed Separately; And Now First Collected Together, With Some Other Pieces Never Before Printed
Lordfhip, 'written during his travels through France and Italy? Perhaps it would be fufiicient to anfwer, caufe they are replete With profitable. And entertaining accounts of the poli tical tranfaé'rions of thofe times, to -gether with the 11109: fenfible and pertinent remarks on the fiate of Eu rope at that period. But I {hall fur ther add, that Ifihave ¿ronger and more weighty reafons for their publi cation, not only becaufe they are the produce of the beit of heads, but be caufe they are effufions from the bei't of hearts; and becaufe they are the early and wonderful proofs of his generofity, piety, and above all his filial reverence; and may be jufily deemed the firf't ebullitions of virtues, which, being afterwards matured by age and experience, extended their A 4 beneficentbeneficent in¿uence over mankind in general, and were more immediately.
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