A CRITICAL and PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENTARY ON Mr. POPE's ESSAY ON MAN. In which is contain'd A VINDICATION of the said ESSAY From the MISREPRESENTATIONS of Mr. DE RESNEL, the French Translator, AND OF Mr. DE CROUSAZ, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics in the By Mr. WARBURTON. Vide quam iniqui funt divinorum munerum æftima- LONDON: Printed for JoHN and PAUL KNAPTON, MDCCXLII. TO MY WORTHY FRIEND RALPH ALLEN, Esq; I SIR, give myself the pleasure of conversing with you, in this Form; as I see you less under the Idea of a Patron, than of a joint Labourer with me in the Service of Mankind. For while I attempt to explain the Theory of this divine Philosophy of Univerfal Benevolence, you illustrate it by your Practice. At most therefore I can but offer you the ESSAY ON MAN, set in a just Light, as a Mirrour for your Cabinet; where you may behold the perfect Image of your own Mind: And the Works of this Artist, who is beholden only to Truth for their Polish and their A 2 |