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ducesome few remarks upon the cruelty and 

 inconsistency of ancient practice ; submit- 

 ting such conclusions and inferences as will 

 naturally arise to those readers who recur to 

 this work for information, amusement, or to 

 sink a tedious hour in the serious task of 

 criticism. It has been before mentioned how 

 exquisitely sensible this organ is of irrita- 

 tiou ; and it must be admitted, no argument 

 whatever can undergo a more candid discus- 

 sion than in an application to our own feel- 

 ings, inconveniences, and disquietudes. To 

 the sensations tlicrefore of every individual 

 I submit the reflection, and venture to be- 

 lieve, there are none who may honour me 

 with a perusal of these pages but will, by a 

 momentary retrospection, communicate to 

 memory the recollection of some acute pain, 

 or excruciating anguish, he must, in all pro- 

 bability, have experienced from either the 

 obtrusion of an almost impalpable par- 

 ticle of dust, or the attack of an invisible 

 insect, 



E-evolviniy such circumstances for a few 



o 



moments in remembrance, I claim his atten- 

 tion to the following eorroboratioii of that . 



