manner of the people whose character I have assumed, to bring an humble
offering in my hand.

As some part of my subject led me to consider the advantages of our
excellent constitution in comparison of others; my thoughts were
naturally turned to YOUR MAJESTY, as its warmest friend and most
powerful protector: and as the whole is intended, to recommend the
practice of virtue, as the means of happiness; to whom could I address
it with so much propriety, as to a PRINCE, who illustrates and enforces
the precepts of the moralist by his life.

I am,
May it please Your MAJESTY,
Your MAJESTY'S
Most faithful, most obliged,
And most obedient
Subject and Servant,

John Hawkesworth.




CHAP. I.


Who is he among the children of the earth, that repines at the power of
the wicked? and who is he, that would change the lot of the righteous?
He, who has appointed to each his portion, is God; the Omniscient and
the Almighty, who fills eternity, and whose existence is from Himself!