historicalgeogra00psal

The Preface.
dence which fo open has deliver d nte out of
their Hands^ will fruflrate all their Dejigns
and Contrivances^ that I may fay with the
Pfalmift, He (hall reward Evil unto mine
Enemies 5 deftroy thou them in thy truth,
PfaL 54. V. 5.
I fear this trifling Performance will not he
very acceptable to you^ becaufe *tis not fo elegant
and polite as you perhaps might wijh ^
was fenfible of my ovfn Wea\nefs and Incapacity
for it, and therefore depend upon your
Goodnefs to pardon my Errors, and fnpply my
DefeSs ^ elegant Exprejjions^ and pomp of
Words, are not to be expeSled from a raw and
nnpolijh'd Japannefe. But fince I wrote thh
Treatife in Latin e, that it might be afterwards
turnd into Englifj ^ and obliged the Tranjlators
to make no Additions or Alterations , 'tis
mine, and not their faults, if you meet with
any Imperfe3ons in the fubfance of the Hifiory.
T/r not my delight, but my grief, that I
am obliged to publiji) my Arguments againji
thofe Religions which 1 could not conform to,
becaufe fome perhaps will interpret what I have
faid to reflect upon them 5 but that was far
front my Intentions, who only defignd to give
you my Reafons why I could not fnhfvribe to
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