Concerning the ENGLISH NATION. BY MR. DE VOLTA ÍR E. A NEW EDITION. LONDON: Printed for L. DAVIS and C. REYMERS, againft M DCC LX. THE PREFACE. THE that HE prefent work appears with confidence in the kingdom gave birth to it: and will be well fatisfied with its fortune, if it meets with as favourable a reception as has been indulged to all the other compofitions of its author. The high esteem which Mr. de Voltaire has always difcovered for the English, is a Proof how ambitious he is of their approbation.. It is now grown familiar to him, but then he is not tired with it; and indeed one' would be apt to think that this circum |