We have been de-bating with ourselves for some twenty-four hours whether we should putthe Preface at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of the book.We wanted to thrust it upon the attention of the reader by some ingeniousstratagem—because we have something to say which Everybody… … P-l-l^no£i PREFACE. Diogenes, at the modest price of Two-pence weekly. But as not morethan fifty thousand persons have the sagacity to take that periodical inas it appears, it would be great cruelty to the remaining 29,950,000inhabitants of these kingdoms, to deprive them of the pleasures…
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