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finishing branch of all-perfect education, 

 of which he had so well laid the foundation 

 in a separate early discipline, with singular 

 effect. But beyond what is given as having 

 received an arrangement from his own 

 hand, the materials belonging to this, as 

 well as the subsequent heads, are not in 

 such order as, either in justice to the 

 author or in deference to the public, would 

 warrant any attempt to offer them in their 

 present dislocated form. It is to be attri- 

 buted, indeed, in a good measure, to a 

 feeling of this latter kind on the part of 

 the author, as much as to his own situation, 

 that some of these articles were permitted 

 to linger in an uncompleted state : for 

 after being led seriously to adopt the idea 

 of publication, although we find him* sti- 

 pulating with his corresponding friend, as 

 the representative of the public on this 

 occasion, for the privilege of unfolding 

 himself in his own way, it will readily be 

 conceived, that in the more extended view 

 which he was compelled to take of the 



Vide p. 3. 



