Thirty Letters on Various Subjects, Vol. 1 (of 2)

· 1803

Printed for T. CADELL, and T. EVANS, in the Strand; and B. THORN and SON, in EXETER. Whether these are real letters, or whether the author chose to throw his observations into the epistolary form, is a point of no great consequence. The invention of a story to shew how they came into the editor’s hands is by no means difficult.—A parcel of papers rescued from the trunk-maker or pastry-cook, has saved many an author from perishing. =CERVANTES= and =STERNE= were not above such shifts; but they have served so often, that now, even the truth, tho’ without the least mixture of the marvellous, passes for invention.…

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