vi INTRODUCTION. 



perpetual oblivion of many literary produc- 

 tions, (unfortunately for their authors) io 

 foon as they were brought to the teft of 

 public inveftigation. 



The Gentleman's Stable Diredlory, hav- 

 ing by the unprecedented rapidity of its 

 circulation through twelve large editions, and 

 the acknowledged utility of its inflrudlions ; 

 in a great degree fuperfeded former opi- 

 FxionSj and eftablifhed the profeflional repu-» 

 tation of the writer, it will be hardly con- 

 fidered a mark of prefumption, that (under 

 the flattering influence of popularity) the 

 fame pen iliould once more afpire to the hope 

 of applaufe, in his defire to extend the fyf- 

 tem cf management to a degree of confift- 

 cncy hitherto undelcribed by any one o^ the 

 numerous authors, who have preceded us 

 upon the fame or fimilar fubjeds, 



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