Présentation de l'éditeur
Preface or Introduction to my book. My adviser being one of known taste and judgment, I am determined that one part of this work shall show both good taste and good judgment in its A uthor. That part, and possibly the only part that will do so, is the taking such advice. Conscience whispers that an apology for offering it to public notice is still more necessary. This I was not told: politeness alone probably prevented my being so: let me therefore hope the public will consider what I now oifer as Preface, I ntroduction, and A pology. I have read prefaces in which the Author assures his reader, if the book is found to beguile a vacant hour of his time that its end and aim will have been fully accomplished. That such philanthropic feelings may actuate such authors, it would ill become me to dispute :where they do, I conceive they must emanate either from men of such transcendent abilities that composing a work gives them no trouble, or from those of such fortunes that pecuniary advantage was quite beneath their consideration. That I am not one of the former class I am perfectly satisfied; that I am not now one of the latter I am as perfectly convinced, though by no means satisfied.
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