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price set upon his purchase. I was 

 about to give him change. 



" No," he said ; " if I like this as well as I 

 did the first, I shall remain your debtor." 



How blind are we mortals to the effects of 

 good or evil that spring from accident ; and 

 how prone are we to forget when the scale 

 of evil or injury appears to be overloaded, 

 how soon it may be counterpoised. 



Without travelling beyond the limits 

 I had prescribed myself when I com- 

 menced this narrative, I have recorded 

 this as an occurrence that arose en- 

 tirely, as I have shewn, from the po- 

 sition I then occupied (which forms 

 the title of this book), and was imme- 

 diately associated with it for the merits 

 and the errors of my production (for 

 they were many) were almost daily dis- 

 cussed on the box, and I continued to re- 

 ceive praise and remuneration from noble- 

 men and gentlemen whose sons had for- 

 warded to them copies from the University. 



