TO THE REVEREND AND PROFOUNDLY LEARNED JOSEPH GOODALL, D.D. HEAD MASTER OF ETON COLLEGE, THIS VOLUME, THEIR FIRST LITERARY EFFORT, I S, WITH ALL THE ENERATION DUE TO SUCH A MASTER, GRATITUDE TO SUCH AN INSTRUCTOR, AND ESTEEM TO SUCH A MAN, INSCRIBED BY HIS MOST RESPECTFUL SCHOLARS, THE AUTHORS. ск by Charles Knight the Elder, The thievesend eneceding after this lapse of sixteen yea th managing with nor afternad Iis Stralfred Canning "Your father " said Ms Murray to the once after dinner, "helped to make my friture. Whend littto humpery shop in kept Hect sheet, wo Renvell the Master of the Temple, totot me the many unsold copies. I took the stock; paid the account; made waste paper of the numbers; ز brought smart Edition ཡ་་ཅ་ Absolute.-Cure for his Malady. 73 VII. Contradiction. got the repulation of being a. clever pattishes; was interdured to Ginge Canning, in consequence of the service I had rena CONTENTS. No. I. NTRODUCTION.--The Author's INTRODUCTION. motives for writing.-The treat- ment he expects to receive. 13 23 IV. Reflections on the rapid decline of Manners, and relapse into Barbarism. 33 V. The restlessness of the Human Mind.- - VI. Plagiarism.—-Laws against that of fence. Various Trials,- -That of VII. Contradiction.-Letter from Anthony Absolute.-Cure for his Malady. 45 73 |