Page:History of Manchester (1771), Volume 1, by John Whitaker.djvu/16

 PREFACE. fc became languid and exhaufted, hy fetching in ibme obje&s from the county at large, or by prefenting fome view of the national hiilory. But he has been cautious of multiplying obje&s in the wantonnefs of refinement, and of diftra&ing the attention with a confuted variety. He has always confidered the hiftory of Manchefter as the great fixed point, as the enlivening center, of all his excurfions. Every opening is therefore made to car- ry aiv aftual^ reference, eithermediate pr immediate, to th^regu- • ht tmr? vflMzmyAAM Mj l vm w 7 ^^k on* Jy for the ufeful purpofe of breaking the. ft,ifF ftraight lines, <5f lighting up the dark, of heightening in'e' "little'," and of •colouring Offer the Uiifefef/, : ftfittitf r&fcttf fcrftofy of 'ifan* ' *hefter.— ~* -* r :i - " : - •- ' : •' -' J ..I . J 2 *J + .. .. . '.II February. 4^1 77^ •v. • * * ?HE