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Excerpt from Essays in a Series of Letters to a Friend, Vol. 1 of 2: On the Following Subjects; I. On a Man's Writing Memoirs of Himself; II. On Decision of Character; III. On the Application of the Epithet Romantic; IV. On Some of the Causes by Which Evangelical Religion Has Been Rendered Less Acceptable to Persons of Cul
When the Author began thefe letters, his intention was to confine himfelf within fuch limits, that elfays on twelve or fifteen fub jefts might have been comprifed in a volume. But he foon found that an interelting fub jeél could not be fo fully unfolded as he wi?red in fuch a narrow fpace. It appeared to him that many things, which would be excluded, as much belonged to the purpofe of the efiay as thole which would be intro. Duced.
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