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ENOX LIBRAR
NEW YORK

As an historian, LORD CLARENDON's reputation is too firmly fixed now to be affected by either praise or censure:-If, as a moral writer, he appear with less advantage than his illustrious predecessor, his style, and its lengthened periods, will readily be endured for the soundness of his opinions and the integrity of his mind.

Until within these few years his ESSAYS, which now form a suitable companion to those of LORD BACON, were not disengaged from the bulky folio in which only they were to be found: in this edition, it has been thought proper to omit three, which, from their extreme length, rather claim to be considered as dissertations: their titles are, On an active and contemplative Life, and when and why the one ought to be preferred before the other;" "Of the Reverence due to Antiquity;" "Against the multiplying Controversies, by insisting upon Particulars that are not necessary to the Point in Debate." These are together equal in quantity to the remaining twenty-two, which form the contents of the present volume.

Sept. 1819.

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