Excerpt from Selections From Various Sources
Tm: ensuing pages consist of miscellaneous extracts from a voluminous mass of manuscripts which owe their existence to the ancient adage of reading with a pen or pencil in the hand. They have accumulated during a long series of years, without the most distant idea of publication. Recently, however, it has been sug gested that what had given pleasure or edification to myself, might perform a similar office for others.
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