The PREFACE.

other good Things, so a good Book , the biggerit is, the better is it : which holds as welof the Number as Magnitude of Books.

Secondly, Being too hasty in huddling up,and tumbling out of Books: wherein, I con e s,

I cannot wholly acquit my self of blame.

I know well, that the longer a Book lies yme, the perfecter it becomes. Somethingoccurs every day in Reading or Thinking,either to add, or to correct and alter tor t lebetter. But should I defer the Edition till theWork were absolutely perfect, 1 'Y al Jall my Life-time, and leave it to be publuhedby my Executors. Now my Age rrundiHgme of the approach of Death; and Posthu-mous Pieces generally proving lnfenour tothose put out by the Authors in their Lue-time, 1 need no other excuse for my hast inpublishing what I write. Yet I (hall furtheradd in extenuation of the fault, if it be one,that how ever hasty and precipitate I am inwriting, my Books are but itnall, to that 1they be worthless, the Purchase is not great,nor the Ex pence of Time wasted in the peru-sal of them very considerable. Yet is notthe worth of a Book always anlwerable toitsbulk. But on the contrary, Mtyc /SibAiar,is usually esteemed, "im>v n2 ***" >

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