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Critics have of late sometimes complained of the frequency of reprints from periodical literature; and perhaps not unreasonably. Yet surely, it is a venial offence, for if any be injured, it must be the publishers and authors alone. The public, if it does not like the wares, need not, and will not, purchase them 5 and knowing beforehand What they are, will not be liable to be taken in by its own false preconceptions, or a pretentious advertisement.
It is not for me to say whether the following Essays, be intrinsically worthy of a separate republication.
The subjects indeed are, for the most part, of great importance and enduring interest. Of the mode of treatment the reader must judge. But it is only just to myself to say that the whole of the Essays have been very carefully revised, many additions and altera tions made, and no inconsiderable portions almost rewritten.
One reason among others which has induced me to issue them in the present form, 18, that I have been told by some of my coevals, whose eyes, like mine, are getting dim, that they would be glad to read them in a larger type.
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