THE

GENTLEMAN'S LIBRARY

CONTAINING

RULES for CONDUCT

IN ALL

PARTS of LIFE.

THE FOURTH EDITION.

Corrected and Enlarged.

Written by a GENTLEMAN,

Purpureus laté qui fplendeat, unus, & alter
Afuitur parnus.

HOR.

L O N D ON:
Printed for S. BIRT, at the Bible and Ball in

Ave-Mary-Lane ; and D. Browne, at the
Black Swan without Temple-Bar.

M DCC XLIV. ·

PRE FACE

TO THE

R E A D E R.

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N a Book that has not a Dedication prefix’d,

there is a sort of Necessity of a Preface; because it looks odd to skip from a TitlePage, to an Introduction. However, I did not alone consult that Part of Decency in my

Reasons for this Preface, but penned it, with regard that I thought something ought to be said on the Work in general.

The

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