Présentation de l'éditeur
Tbb veiy favourable reception which the present woilc has enjoyed, both in Europe and our own country, haa induced the editor to put it forth again in a neater and still more conrentent form. The design, therefore, originally entertained, of i pubhshing the lair Horace, is now abandoned, aod the present volume is to supply its place for the time to come. The object of this abridgment is, as was stated on lis first appearance, to supply the student with a text-book of co Dveoient size, and one that may contaiu, at the same time, a commentary sufficiently ample for all bis wants. The editor hopes, from the rapid sale of the previous editions, that tMs desirable result haa been successfully accomplished; and he returns his thanks to those iaatructers, who have not allowed themselves to be trammelled by sectional feelings and prejudices, but have adopted his work in their res ective institutions, although it does not emanate from what some are pleased to consider as the hearth of American scholarship. It may seem strange to talk of sectional prejudices ita matters of education and classical learning; yet the Tact cannot be disguised, that they not only exist, but exercise also a very baneful in Quence among us; and we may well despair of aeeing the scholarahip of our common country attain to any degree of eminence, while these miserable prejudices are allowed to continue. The editor speaks thus plainly on this subject, as he himself has experienced, more, perhaps, than any other individual, th Qeffects which such feelings are but too well calculated to produce. He has been charged with overloading the authors, whom he has from time to time edited, with cumbersome commentaries; he has been accused of making the path of classical learning too easy far the state c.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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