. Unto this last . I. The four following essays were published eighteenmonths ago in the Comhill Magazine, and werereprobated in a violent manner, as far as I couldhear, by most of the readers they met with. Not a whit the less, I believe them to be the best,that is to say, the truest, rightest-worded, and mostserviceable things I have ever written; and the lastof them, having had especial pains spent on it, isprobably the best I shall ever write. This, the reader may reply, it might be, yetnot therefore well written. Which, in no mockhumility, admitting, I yet rest satisfied with the work,tho
. Unto this last . I. The four following essays were published eighteenmonths ago in the Comhill Magazine, and werereprobated in a violent manner, as far as I couldhear, by most of the readers they met with. Not a whit the less, I believe them to be the best,that is to say, the truest, rightest-worded, and mostserviceable things I have ever written; and the lastof them, having had especial pains spent on it, isprobably the best I shall ever write. This, the reader may reply, it might be, yetnot therefore well written. Which, in no mockhumility, admitting, I yet rest satisfied with the work,though with nothing else that I have done; andpurposing shortly to follow out the subjects openedin these papers, as I may find leisure, I wish theintroductory statements to be within the reach ofany one who may care to refer to them. So I repub-lish the essays as they appeared. One word only ischanged, correcting the estimate of a weight; andno word is added. 2. Although, however, I find nothing to modifyin these pap
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