via the editor’s freface. 
expletives, and the expunging digres¬ 
sions, particularly about himself. If, 
however, the reader should find that I 
have permitted a single idea, like a will¬ 
ing horse imposed upon, to carry double, 
or even triple sentences by way of riders, 
I humbly trust that it will be conjectured, 
that, if I had endeavoured to dismount one 
of the intruders, that I should not only 
have hazarded the fall of both, but even 
have run the risk of causing the gallant 
steed himself to stumble. 
