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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
Affuitur pannus.

HOR.

LONDON:

Printed for S. BIRT, at the Bible and Ball in
Ave-Mary-Lane; and D. BROWNE, at the
Black Swan without Temple-Bar.

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PREFACE

TO THE

READER.

Na Book that has not a Dedication prefix'd, there is a fort of Ne

ceffity of a Preface; because it looks odd to skip from a TitlePage, to an Introduction. However, I did not alone confult that Part of Decency in my Reasons for this Preface, but penned it, with regard that I thought fomething ought to be faid on the

Work in general.