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some measure) from repetitions, and the suppression of certain matters of mere private concern, by no means objects of information or entertainment to the Public.
It were a misuse of time to offer proofs of their authenticity, which shew so clearly and unequivocally through every page of these volumes.
Will not the public candor presume, that farther embellishment of style, apposite quotations, abundant illustrations, &c. &c. might have been supplied by the same pen, which offers them the present artless, ingenuous narration, had such decorations seemed expedient, or a display of the Author's reading been an object of publication.
Much of the matter now before us, was thrown on paper immediately after; and not
