EORGE the Second, by the Grace of God, King of Great G Faith, a To all to whom thefe Prefents fhall come, Greeting. Whereas James Buckland, James Waugh, John Ward, Thomas Longman, and Edward Dilly, Citizens and Bookfellers of our City of London, have by their Petition humbly reprefented unto Us, that they have purchased the Copy-Right of the WHOLE WORKS of the late DOCTOR ISAAC WATTS, and that they are now printing and preparing for the Prefs, new Editions with Improvements, of feveral of the feparate Pieces of the faid Doctor Ifaac Watts. They have therefore most humbly prayed Us, that We would be graciously pleafed to grant them our Royal Licence and Protection for the fole printing, publishing, and vending the faid Works, in as ample Manner and Form as has been done in Cafes of the like Nature; We being willing to give all due Encouragement to Works of this Nature, which may be of publick Use and Benefit, are graciou fly pleased to condefcend to their Requeft, and do therefore by these Prefents, as far as may be agreeable to the Statute in that Behalf made and provided, grant unto them, the faid James Buckland, James Waugh, John Ward, Thomas Longman, and Edward Dilly, their Executors, Adminiftrators, and Affigns, our Royal Privilege and Licence, for the fole printing, publishing, and vending the faid Works for the Term of fourteen Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, strictly forbidding and prohibiting all our Subjects within our Kingdoms and Dominions, to reprint, abridge, or tranflate the fame, either in the like, or any other Volume or Volumes whatsoever, or to import, buy, vend, utter, or diftribute any Copies thereof reprinted beyond the Seas, during the aforefaid Term of fourteen Years, without the Confent and Approbation of the faid James Buckland, James Waugh, John Ward, Thomas Longman, and Edward Dilly, their Executors, Administrators and Affigns, by Writing under their Hands and Seals first had and obtained, as they and every of them offending herein, will answer the contrary at their Peril, whereof the Commiffioners and other Officers of our Cuftoms, the Mafter, Wardens, and Company of Stationers of our City of London, and all other our Officers and Minifters, whom it may concern, are to take Notice, that due Obedience be rendered to our Pleasure herein fignified. Given at our Court at St. James's the Twenty First Day of Ma ch, 1758. in the Thirty First Year of Our Reign. By His Majefty's Command. W. PITT. The Chief Principles and Rules of Pro- Written at firft for Private Ufe, and now By I. WATT S, D. D. Extera quid quærit, fua qui vernacula nescit? Let all the foreign Tongues alone, The NINTH EDITION. LONDON: Printed for T. LONGMAN, J. BUCKLAND, and W. FEN- Daughters of Sir THOMAS ABNEY, Knt. and Alderman of London. My Honour'd Young FRIENDS, W HEN it pleased God to af ford me the first Degrees of Release from a long and tirefome Weakness, I thought myself bound to make my best Acknowledgment of that uncommon Generofity and Kindness of your honoured Parents, by which I was first invited into your Family, and my Health began to be restored. Nor could I do. any thing more grateful to them, nor more pleafing to myself, than offer my Affiftance in fome Part of your Education, while I was uncapable of more publick Work. I begun therefore at the first Principles of Learning, that I might have Opportunity to correct any leffer Mistakes of your youngest Years, and to perfect your Knowledge of our Mother-Tongue: For this Purpose, when I found no Spelling-Book fufficient to answer my Defigns, I wrote many of these Directions; but my Health was fo imperfect, that I was not able, at that time, to tranfcribe and finish this little Book, which was defigned for you. Thus it lay by neglected some Years, till a Charity School arose at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, raised and supported by the diffufive Goodness of your Family, in concert with the pious Neighbourhood. Then was I requested, and even provoked to put the last Hand to this Work, for the better Inftruction |