A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings: On Moral, Historical, Political and Literary Subjects (Classic Reprint)

Colie6lion confifts of Ef Taysand Fugitiv Peeces,rittenat various times, and on different occafions, az wil appeer by their dates and fubje6ls. Many of them were dictated at the moment, by the impulfe of impreffions made by important political events, and abound with a correfpondent warmth of expreflion. This freedom of language wil be excufed by the frends of the revolution and of good guvernment, who wil recolle6l the fenfations they hav experienced, amidft the anarky and diftraftion which fucceeded the cloze of the war. On fuch occafions a riter wil naturally giv himfelf up to hiz feelings, and hiz manner of riting wil flow from hiz manner of thijiking. MOST of thoze peeces, which hav appeered before in periodical papers and Magazeens,were publifhed with fiftitious fignatures ;for I very erly difcuvered, that altho the name of an old and refpe6lable karafter givs credit and confequence to hiz ritings, yet the name of a yung man iz often prejudicial to hiz performances. By conceding my name, the opinions of men hav been prezerved from an undu bias arizing from perfonal prejudices, the faults of the ritings hav been detefted, and their merit in public eflimation afcertained.
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