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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: no one with a well-regulated mind will regret their loss; nor could they have been tolerated, even in the licentious days to which they relate. It should also be observed, that no part of the Diary previously printed has been suppressed, and the ipsissima verba of the author are studiously retained, a few words only being occasionally introduced between brackets, where the sense was obscure or doubtful. How far the part of the work hitherto unseen will meet the views of those readers who seem to have over-estimated its value, I need not hazard any opinion. Perhaps, having done all in my power to gratify their curiosity, I may be allowed to remind them, that, although a great mass of new matter is diffused throughout the pages, abounding with those quaint and minute details, considered as so amusing and so characteristic of the author, and principally relating to scenes in domestic life, it cannot be expected to be of the same historical value as the portions originally published. Nor would it, indeed, be reasonable to anticipate such a result, unless the editorial duties had in the first instance been performed in a most careless manner. The new edition will, at all events, appear in a greatly improved shape; and, although much chapter{Section 4amplified, it has been printed in a more compendious form, that the work might be kept as much as possible within bounds. The text and the foot-notes have also been carefully corrected, and a great many fresh notices and illustrations inserted; whilst great pains have been taken not to encumber the pages with long commentaries, which would interfere with the pleasure of the perusal. It is, indeed, obvious that, in a work throughout which so many names occur, there are some of whom nothing can be said, because nothing can be disc...
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