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to expet that our Turn is next 5 andthat- what Gwe was M     L £X.
      £,
and Rome under AUG US T US Cifar, Britain hall be under GE 0 R G E and
CAROLINE?
BUT even this were to under-rate &ur Hpei, which are rais'd, by Your
Ma-
jelly, to Something lill more truly glorious.  Greatnefs, fo fondly coveted,
has
already cofl the World very dear; and, tho fhill purfued by unthinking Men
under
almoft every Shape, is only defirable in a few.  Of it felf it is rather
an Qbjedt
of Terror and Alarm, than Delight" and at befl iAly pleafes, when join-'4
with
fomethin' natura.lly amiable.  Fronimhe Praetice of tjur Majefty, Men may
correct
their Siarrmenus, and learn, dhat Greatnefs has no crm  except when foinded
in
Goodnefk. To be Great, and a King, is but a fmal Matter with Your MAjcffy
'tis a Quality many others enjoy in common with You, and to which fome have
even been doom'd, to their Infamy: 'tis what Herod was, and Nebuchadnezzar
was;
and Nero, and Di~onitian were.  But, while other Princes chufe to be great
in
what is deftru6tive, and others in things wholly indifferent; 'tis Your Majelly's
Praife
to be great in what is the Perfection of our Nature, and that whereby we
approach
neareft the Deity. Happy Choice ! to ufe Power only as the Means of rendering
your Beneficence more diffufive; and thus make Power and Royalty minifter
to the'
Happinefs of Mankind, which they have too often invaded,
YOUR     Majefly commands a People capable of every thing. Not more fitted
to fhine in Arms, or maintain an extended Commerce; than to fucceed in the
ftiller Purfuits of Philofophy and Literature. And it will be Your Majefty's
Glory,
not to let any of their Talents lie unemploy'd.-lf Your Majefly gives the
Word, while fome of 'em are bufied in avenging Your Caufe, by humbling fome
turbulent Monarch i fome in extending your Doominions by new Settlements,
and
forne in increafing your Peoples Wealth, by new Trades: Others will be employ'd
in enlarging our Knowledge, by new Difcoveries in Nature, or new Contrivances
of
Art i others in refining our Language; others in improving our Morals; and
others
in recording the Glories of your Reign, in immortal Verfe.
T H E Work I here prefume to lay at Your Majefy's Feet, is an Attempt towards
a Survey of the Republick of Learning, as it hands at the Beginning of Your
Majefty's
auspicious Reign. We have here the Boundary that circumfcribes our prefent
Profpedt3
and Separates the known, from the unknown Parts of the Intelligible World.
 Under
Your Majefly's Princely Influence and Encouragement, we promife our felves
this
Boundary willbe removed, and the Profpeft extended far into the othcr HeInifphere.
Methinks I fee Trophies eredting to Your MajeRy in the yet undifcover'd Regions
of Science; and Your Majefty's Name inscribed to Inventions at prefent held
im-
pollible!
I am, with all Sincerity and Devotion,
May it pleafe Tour MAYfESrT,
Tour Majeyfy's moyf D.utjfl,
and Obedient Subjed,
and Servant,
Ephraimn Chambers.