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DEDICATED

(With a Father's love)

TO A FAMILY CIRCLE

LONG MERCIFULLY UNBROKEN.

A Word of Greeting to my Children.

It was said, I think, by Coleridge, "Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in every body's reach: ... it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more. Let any Bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration that does his heart good, hasten to give it." These Extracts form but a fragment of occasional jottings made in a commonplacebook for my own use and recreation, partly in College days, and partly during a long and laborious professional life, without any intention of giving them publicity. They are printed (without regard to the order of time in which they were made), and will thus be read more conveniently than in MS. .

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