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PREFACE.
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What has been said will show that the volume which I now bring to a completion is something more than a mere reprint. The labour which I have bestowed has, I trust, not been altogether fruitless. I have to thank the friends and critics[1] whose suggestions have helped me in it, and to ask the forgiveness of that praiseworthy and often suffering class, the purchasers of first editions, for not having bestowed the same pains at an earlier stage of publication.
- ↑ Among these it is right to acknowledge my special obligations to the Rev. Dr Major, who has, with great kindness, corrected the press for me throughout; nor would it be easy to count up the passages in which the hints and criticisms of the Rev. Charles Hole, of Shanklin, have contributed to remove from my work some of its imperfections.
