CHARACTERS,

AND

AN ADDRESS TO POSTERITY,

BY

GILBERT BURNET, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF SARUM.

WITH

THE TWO PREFACES TO THE DUBLIN EDITIONS.

One of the late poets feigneth, that, at the end of the thread, or web, of every man's
life, there was a little medal, containing the person's name; and that Time waited
upon the shears, and, as soon as the thread was cut, caught the medals, and carried them
to the river of Lethe; and about the bank, there were many birds flying up and down,
that would get the medals, and carry them in their beak a little way, and then, let them
fall into the river: only, there were a few swans, which, if they got a name, would
carry it to a temple, where it was consecrated.
LORD BACON.

EDITED,

WITH AN INTRODUCTION, AND NOTES,

BY JOHN JEBB, D.D. F.R.S.

BISHOP OF LIMERICK, ARDFERT AND
AGHADOE.

LONDON:

JAMES DUNCAN, 37. PATERNOSTER-ROW;
AND JOHN COCHRAN, 108. STRAND.

Equidem, ex omnibus rebus, quas mihi aut fortuna, aut natura tribuit, nihil habeo, quod cum amicitiâ Scipionis possim comparare. In hâc mihi de republicâ consensus, in hâc rerum privatarum consilium: in eâdem requies plena oblectationis: nunquam illum, ne minimâ quidem re, offendi, quod quidem senserim; nihil audivi ex eo ipse, quod nollem: una domus est, idem victus, isque communis: etiam peregrinationes, rusticationesque communes. Nam quid ego de studiis dicam, cognoscendi semper aliquid, atque discendi ? in quibus, remoti ab oculis populi, omne otiosum tempus contrivimus.

CICERO.

TO

MY DAILY COMPANION,

MINE OWN FAMILIAR FRIEND,

CHARLES FORSTER, B.D.,

THESE EXAMPLES OF LIFE,

ARE, FROM THE HEART,

INSCRIBED:

J. L.

DEC. XII. MDCCCXXXII.