A PLAN
F O H A
I S H A L L take the liberty of writing to you alittle oftener than the three or four tirnes a year,which, you tell me, are ail you can allow yourselfto write to those you like best : and yet 1 déclaréto you with gréât truth, that you never knevv meso busy in your lise, as L am at présent. You mustnot imagine from hence, that I am writing mé-moire of myself. The subjtct is too ílight todescend to poílerity, in any other manner, thanby that occahonal mention which may be madeof any little actor in the hifìory of our âge. Sylla,C.ESAK, and others of that rank, were, whilstthey lived, at the head of mankind: their ílorywas in fome fort the story of the world, and asfuch might very properly be tranfmitted undertheir names to future générations. But for thosewhohaveacted much inferior parts, if they publiíhthe piece, and call it aster their own names, theyare impertinent j if they publiíh only their own