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 this one work.—Towards the end of his prologomena, which by the bye should have come first,—but the bookbinder has most injudiciously placed it betwixt the analitical contents of the book, and the book itself,—he informs his reader, that ever since he had arrived at the age of discernment, and was able to sit down coolly, and consider within himself the true state and condition of man, and distinguish the main end and design of his being;—or,—to shorten my translation, for Slawkenbergius's book is in Latin, and not a little prolix in this passage,—ever since I understood, quoth Slawkenbergius, any thing,—or rather what was what,—and could perceive that the point of long noses had been too loosely handled by all who had gone before;—have I, Slawkenbergius, felt a strong impulse, with a mighty and an un-