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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
If the author of these united tracts had been any friend to prefaces, he would probably have made his entrance after that manner in one or other of the five treatises formerly published apart. But as to all prefatory or dedicatory discourse, he has told us his mind sufficiently in that treatise which he calls Soliloquy. Being satisfied, however, that there are many persons who esteem these introductory pieces as very essential in the constitution of a work, he has thought fit, in behalf of his honest printer, to substitute these lines under the title of a preface and to declare ‘that (according to his best judgment and authority) these presents ought to pass and be received, construed and taken as satisfactory in full, for all preliminary composition, dedication, direct or indirect application for favour to the public or to any private patron or party whatsoever, nothing to the contrary appearing to him from the side of truth or reason’. Witness his hand, this fifth day of December 1710.
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