Produced by Julia Miller, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) I must be allowed to say a few words in explanation of the contents of this little volume, which is truly what its name sets forth--a book of common-places, and nothing more. If I have never, in any work I have ventured to place before the public, aspired to _teach_, (being myself a _learner_ in all things,) at least I have hitherto done my best to deserve the indulgence I have met with; and it would pain me if it could be supposed that such indulgence had rendered me presumptuous…
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