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1821. April 20. First Lines. (2.)

Preface

In the character of an object or As a standard of reference, the work at large, if compleated,
may be found of use, in the whole or in part, to one or other of three
purposes — adoption, avoidance, or amendment.

To these same purposes may even this imperfect and
inadequate sketch be found of use according to the extent of it,
and according to the measure of its aptitude.

By this or that reader, some of the topics will be found
too copiously treated of; others, too scantily: some that will have
been looked for will not be found.

In regard to such of the topics as have been treated of
in the Author's former works, published and unpublished together,
whatever facility may have been afforded, much perplexity was mixed
with it: what to notice, what to leave unnoticed: of that which
is noticed, what to notice by reference only, what by quotation,
what by abridgement: where views have altered what to amend, what
to leave unamended.

To this or that reader, where details have been omitted,
the general matter may thus have been rendered incomprehensible
or at least obscure. Had these details been given, the sketch would,
instead of being a sketch by anticipation, havinghave been so far been the
work at large.

A passage which, to the bulk of readers, may have
appeared appear incomprehensible or obscure, may, to one or other of the
three purposes abovementioned, be found serviceable of use by him who
shall sit down to the perusal of it with the eye of a legislator.
This, if it has any, will be its principal use. O

Of the vast field over the whole of which it was necessary
that, for the purpose of this stretch, the eye of the author
should for this purpose carry itself, some parts there may be found are to which
it had not till now applied itself. In regard to these, how much
greater the degree of affectionsimperfections will naturally be is obvious.

Identifier: | JB/036/002/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	002	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10926
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