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SOME ACCOUNT 



OF 



THE WRITER OF THE FOLLOWING ESSAYS, 



BY HIMSELF. 



(Continued from Vol. I. p. lxxxiii.) 



" Barbiton hie paries habebit." 



This beautiful line from Horace is the last in 

 the last page of the former Essays. When I 

 laid down the pen on the 30th of December, 

 1837, I thought that I should never take it up 

 again. But it has only slumbered for a few 

 short years ; and the reader will see in the 

 preface to this second little volume, what " has 

 called it from the bed of rest." My adven- 

 turous bark is once more rash enough to try its 

 fortune on the high sea of public opinion, 

 where many a stouter vessel, better rigged and 

 better manned, has met an awful and untimely 

 fate. 



