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The contents of this volume are made up, in the main, of selections from a large number of essays which I have composed, within the last ten years, for my own amusement. As to the particular chapters here grouped together, seeing that they were Written at considerable intervals, and, as soon as written, were laid aside and well nigh forgotten, I found, on revising them, that, almost of course, I had, here and there, in some measure repeated myself. After all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
