MISCELLANIES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. To which is prefixed, An ACCOUNT of the Per quefto variar la Natura e Bella. From the Original of M. FORMEY, perpetual Secretary LONDON: Newgate-Street. M.DCC.LIX, AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR, BY HIMSEL F. T HE following Account of myself was required, and the Reader, I hope, will perceive, that, whatever Complaifance there may be in it to others, there is little to myfelf. It is a kind of Confeffion extorted from me, and I am the more difpofed to it, from the manifeft Improbability that I fhall henceforth make any confiderable Addition to the Number of my Works. A Conftitution, impaired by twenty Years of Infirmities, forbids me to form extenfive Schemes, and entertain diftant Hopes. I, from my Soul, fubmit to the Difpenfations of Providence, ever wife and gracious; and fhall now enter on a Detail, which, L |