ABSTRACT
CHAP. VII. is the Author has calculated chie y for the speculation of the serious part
of his readers, and is short enough to be easily passed over by the more gay and unattentive. 458
CHAP. VIII. Contains such a sort of method for the cure of an amorous constitution, as
perhaps, there are more ladies than one who will not think themselves obliged to the Author for revealing. 461
I have made it my observation, before I had the least thoughts of becoming an Author, that there are two sorts of Readers who particularly distinguish themselves from all the rest, yet, though direct opposites in humour, concur in one point, – that of being eager to see every new book that comes out, and impatient till they get to the conclusion of it; – the one of these a ects to be above being pleas’d with any thing he meets with, especially if it exceeds the bulk of a twelve-penny pamphlet, condemning all beyond as tedious, tiresome, and insipid; – the other with alacrity pursues through every page the catastrophe of the longest work, delighting himself with the expectation of nding something to entertain him.
