ON THE

SPIRIT of PATRIOTISM:

ON THE

IDEA OF A PATRIOT KING:

AND ON THE

STATE OF PARTIES,

AT THE

Acceffion of KING GEORGE the FIRST.

A NEW EDITION.

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LONDON:

Printed for T. DAVIES, in Ruffel-Street, Covent-Garden;

BOOKSELLER to the ROYAL ACADEMY.

MDCCLXXV.

то

EDMUND BURKE, Efq.

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SIR,

SHALL make no apology for dedicating to you a new edition of THE SPIRIT OF PATRIOTISM, AND THE IDEA OF A PATRIOT KING; a compofition of Lord Bolingbroke, which he feems to have laboured with great art, and on which he has bestowed that polish, and thofe nice and finishing strokes, which he had neglected to give to his other works.

The Author had no common views when he fet down to this work. He speaks of it with more than paternal fondness. Full of the glorious effects which the reign of a Patriot King would produce, and willing to imagine himself the happy instrument to form so noble a character; in the conclufion of his book, he breaks out into the following pathetic, and, as he hoped, prophetical expreffions! "Those who live to fee fuch hap

py days, and to act in so glorious

a scene, will, perhaps, call to "mind, with some tenderness of fentiment, the man who contri"buted his mite to carry on fo