First Sentence

"IT was, undoubtedly, a good Sentiment in the firft Collector of this Learned Work, to introduce, as well as a Difcourfe of Knighthood in general, a Treatife of all the feveral Orders that have prevail'd in other Parts of the World; for thefe in their Rife and Inftitutions, having a relative Senfe to the particular Subject he was to illuftrate, feemed to afford him a very good Opportunity of doing it, by building on fo convenient a Foundation."