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the time it has cost me from my leisure 

 hours will have neither been thrown away 

 nor misapplied. 



Having ventured to say thus much as 

 to the object of this little Publication, I 

 shall conclude my brief Introduction by 

 disclaiming every wish to appear either 

 too sullenly insensible to the voice of 

 censure, or to the smiles of approbation 

 too feelingly alive. I wish not for the 

 praises of a literary chronicle: let the 

 critic lavish his encomiums on the more 

 lengthened and maturer labours of the ma- 

 thematician, the logician, the poet, and the 

 philosopher; thus reserving his patience 

 and his praise for works of graver interest 

 and weightier materials, to which, so oft 

 and so judiciously, 



" Poetic friends prefix each kind address, 



While awe-struck nations hail them from the press." 



