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Excerpt from Illustrations of Human Life, Vol. 1 of 3
Why, then, I have not yielded to this prudent advice; IS a questlon which Ido not feel it very comfortable to answer for I was not even obliged by hunger, or request of friends. It is, indeed, true that abundant leisure aftera busy life, and the necessity of seeking a diversion of thoughtifrom re?ections prompted by long and severe illness, and still more severe domestic cala mities, may be deemed a fair excuse for committing these ebullitions to paper; but the excuse stops here, and will not justify the sending them into the world.
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