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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: PREFACE. The writer or these Letters U not without some of the yearnings of paternity in committing the offspring of hu brain to the world. His chief concern is that the book may pass as near as possible for what it was intended in the design, however it may fall short in the execution. A close and detailed statistical work on the United States of America, could not keep its place as authority for five years. What is true this year would the next become liable to so many explanations, that the curious would soon cease to consult its pages. The principles of the government, and the general state of society, are certainly more permanent; but the latter varies rapidly in the different stages of a life that is so progressive. Nothing more has, therefore, been attempted here, than to give a hasty and general sketch of most things of interest, and to communicate what is told in as unpretending and familiar a way as the subjects themselves would conveniently allow. The facts of these volumes are believed to be, in common, correct. The Author claims no exemption from error; but as he has given some thought and a great deal of time to the subjects on which he has treated, he hopes that refutation will not easily attack him in the shape of evidence. His reasoning?if rapid, discursive, and ill-arranged arguments can aspire to so high a name?must, of course, depend on its own value. A great number will certainly condemn it, for it as certainly opposes the opinions of a vast number of very honest people in Europe. Still, as he has no one object butVlll PREFACE. the good of all his fellow-creatures in view, he hopes no on worthy motive will be ascribed to his publication. A great number of readers will be indisposed to believe that the United States of America are of the importan...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217462976 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217462979 |
| Weight | 1.16 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 In |
| List Price | $30.71 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 358 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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