PREFACE. 



T KNOW of no character in private 

 life that I hold more contempt- 

 ible than the man who indulges him- 

 self in finding out faults with which 

 he takes a pleasure in taunting his 

 neighbours, and little more do I 

 esteem those who publish the errors 

 of others, merely for the purpose of 

 shewing to the world, that they can 

 ride through a country with their 

 eyes open. On the other hand, I 

 always hold any person excused, if 

 in his excursions, he observes any 

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