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Excerpt from Lectures and Essays
Soon after the delivery of these lectures I was called to a position that led me to forego most of my literary amuse ments, and to direct my nightly studies into the same channel as my daily labours. But having been relieved, by the settlement of the law, of a portion of this kind of study, I was induced to review the recreations of former years and, on reading these lectures, I deemed them not unworthy of being committed to the press. The facts and principles are not matters of local or temporary interest: if they possess any interest, they possess as much now as they did fourteen years ago; and they will possess as much fourteen years hence as they do now. I need hardly say that lectures delivered in the year do not contain any comments upon acts of Parliament passed in the year 1846.
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