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Excerpt from Essays I feel, I confess, no little awkwardness in approaching the subject that I have named at the head of this my first Essay. It is, to begin with, a topic which, when regarded in its integ rity, is one of such vast extent, and, when dissected, displays so intricate a contexture of parts, as to render it a fitting theme to exercise far better disciplined and more logical powers of mind than any I can direct to its consideration, be the object but to give a rough tracing of its importance. And, in the second place, it is so trite a subject, and one so often attempted for its very difficulty, which seems to have made it popular, as to render it not at all an easy task to say any thing that shall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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