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We fhall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain
in any other caufe, if we can be numbered among the writers who
give ardour to virtue and confidence to truth.

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON.

VOL. IX.

LONDON:

Printed by C. Whittingham, Dean Street, Fetter Lane,

FOR H.D. SYMONDS, NO. 20, PATERNOSTER-ROW

DONATED 20. TH

PERCANTILE LIDRAT

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PREFACE.

AT the commencement of the Ninth Volume

of the MONTHLY VISITOR, it is not, we prefume, neceffary to explain the nature and defign of our Publication. Its merits, we truft, are well understood, and the valuable purposes to which its Pages are appropriated, both felt and acknow ledged. Our Correfpondents, indeed, have not unfrequently spoken in flattering terms of the Plan on which it is conducted; and its extenfive utility is evinced by the degree of fuccefs which, during the paft Year, has been experienced.

Original Communications and Valuable Extrals comprife the whole of our Work. Their union conftitutes a portion of information and entertainment which cannot fail of being acceptable to the lovers of Virtue and Morality.

With refpect to ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS, both in Profe and Poetry, a few remarks may not be improper. We would be understood to mean, that we cannot pretend to infert every thing which is fent to us under this denomination. We are often troubled with rubbish, which a regard for our own reputation, and a sense of the Duty we owe the Public, oblige us to confign to the flames. This is a circumftance indeed mortifying to the vanity of a young writer, who may eafily be fuppofed to contemplate with an over-weening fondnefs his own imperfect productions. But the Editors, in rejecting fuch communications, perform a kindness to the individual, in preventing the expofure of himfel, though they find this kindness to be the most thanklefs part of their office. Truly meritorious Correfpondents,

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