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 PREFACE TO THE FOURTH VOLUME.

In completing this volume, I wish to offer some observations, partly in addition to the brief notices which precede several of the pieces it contains, and partly with reference to those which are now first printed from the original MSS. of the author.

I omitted to remark, respecting the Posthumous Works, and the Christian Morals, that copies are in existence with reprint titles—that contemptible form of lying under which publishers have endeavoured to persuade the public of the rapidity of their sales. This was especially the case with the former work, which was first published in 1792. In the