THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

ACCOUNT

OF

CORSICA,

THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR
TO THAT ISLAND;

AND MEMOIRS OF

PASCAL PAOL I.

BY JAMES BOSWELL, Esq;

ILLUSTRATED with a New and Accurate MAP of CORSICA.

Non enim propter gloriam, divitias aut honores pugnamus, fed propter liber-
tatem folummodo, quam nemo bonus nifi fimul cum vita amittit.

Lit. Comit. et Baron. Scotiae ad Pap. A. D. 1320.

THE SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:
Printed for EDWARD and CHARLES DILLY in the Poultry.

MDCCLXVIII.

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PASCAL PAOLI

GENERAL OF

THE CORSICANS.

SIR,

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EDICATIONS are for moft part the offerings of interested fervility, or the effufions of partial zeal; enumerating the virtues of men in whom no virtues can be found, or predicting greatness to those who afterwards pass their days in unambitious indolence, and die leaving no memorial of their exif

tence but a dedication, in which all their merit is confeffedly future, and which time has turned into a filent reproach.

He who has any experience of mankind, will be cautious to whom he dedicates. Publickly to bestow praise on merit of which the publick is not fenfible, or to raise flattering expectations which are never fulfilled, muft fink the character of an authour, and make him appear a cringing parasite, or a fond enthusiast.

I am under no apprehenfions of that nature, when I infcribe this book to Pascal Paoli. Your virtues, Sir, are univerfally ac