Bolingbroke, Henry Saint-John, ist viscount, 1678-1751.

PRINTED for T. CADELL, in the STRAND.

MDCCLXXXVIII.

THE Works of these wife and great Men,

who have been employed in publick Tranfactions, have always been esteemed, by the best fudges, of the utmoft Confequence and of the highest Entertainment; as they enable us to trace the fecret Springs of Events, and to form a true Judgment of Princes and the Conduct of their Minifters; to oppose the dangerous Attacks on Liberty, and fettle the juft Bounds of Prerogative.

With a View to the Profecution of this Defign the following Tracts are now collected together; but it may not perhaps be thought impertinent to acquaint the Reader that, in the Infancy of the late Oppofition, fome of them were ushered into the World from a printing Prefs under the Sanction of a late noble Duke, banded privately about, and very difficult to be procured; others were more openly published, but appeared at different Periods of Time, and amongst weekly Productions.

The Importance of the Subjects and the Elegance with which they were treated, were their firft Recommendation, and will, I doubt not, always fecure them the publick Esteem.