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STERNE:

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OTHER ESSAYS AND VERSES.

BY JOHN FERRIAR, M.D. .

Peace be with the soul of that charitable and cour-
teous Author, who, for the common benefit of his
fellow-authors, introduced the ingenious way of
Miscellaneous Writing!

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LENOX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

ADVERTISEMENT.

The following essays are of so familiar a nature, that they require no formal introduction. A part of the Comments on Sterne, which were published some years ago, has been incorporated with these Illustrations; but with the exception of those few pages, the work is entirely new. Tho' all the pieces of this miscellany may be considered as the fruit of "idle hours not idly spent," in the intervals of an active Profession, I hope it will be found that they have been composed with a degree of attention, proportioned to my respect for the opinion of the public; and that I have not been rendered presumptuous, or careless, by the indulgence which I have experienced on former occasions.

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