PREFACE. 



IT is necessary to prefix a Preface to a work 

 of this nature, to give the reader such informa- 

 tion as may be useful during its perusal ; to 

 explain and point out the nature and arrange- 

 ments of its principal parts, likewise to duly 

 prepare him for what the work contains, 

 which is of great advantage both to the author 

 and himself. 



It often happens in works of this sort, as 

 well as in many others, that quotations are 

 made from other authors in order to sanction 

 and gloss over their own productions, some- 

 times of praise, sometimes of ridicule, just as 

 it may suit the passage or parts alluded to ; 

 but by cautioning my readers against inex- 

 perienced authors, I do not intend throughout 



this publication to call any one name in par- 

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