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Title: The Tatler, Volume 3

Author: Various

Editor: George A. Aitken

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#The Tatler#
Edited by
George A. Aitken

In Four Volumes
Volume Three

#The Tatler#

Edited with Introduction & Notes
by
George A. Aitken

_Author of_
"The Life of Richard Steele," &c.

VOL. III

New York
Hadley & Mathews
156 Fifth Avenue
London: Duckworth & Co.
1899

Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO.
At the Ballantyne Press

_To the_ Right Honourable
#William Lord Cowper#
Baron of Wingham[1]

MY LORD,

After having long celebrated the superior graces and excellences
among men, in an imaginary character, I do myself the honour to
show my veneration for transcendent merit, under my own name, in
this address to your lordship. The just application of those high
accomplishments of which you are master, has been an advantage to
all your fellow subjects; and it is from the common obligation you
have laid upon all the world, that I, though a private man, can
pretend to be affected with, or take the liberty to acknowledge
your great talents and public virtues.

It gives a pleasing prospect to your friends, that is to say, to
the friends of your country, that you have passed through the
highest offices, at an age when others usually do but form to
themsel