BARRISTER-AT-LAW, AND FELLOW AND READER OF HISTORY IN

THE UNIVERSITY.

[PUBLISHED BY DESIRE.]

LONDON:

JOHN COCHRAN, STRAND;

F. ANDREWS, DURHAM; AND E. CHARNLEY, NEWCASTLE-

UPON-TYNE.

LECTURE I.

UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA

ERRATA.

P. 25, line 10, for utmost, read almost.

32, the marginal note should be placed at the beginning of the

11th line, "But the point," &c.

EMENDATION.-P. 10, line 14, instead of " such, for instance," read as do such incidents

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anu uшy, an at to which I have had the honour

to be appointed your reader. I am fully conscious
of my inability to extricate myself from the dilemma.
But if I succeed in conveying useful instruction to
the junior portion of my auditors, I feel no doubt of
the kind indulgence of those whose maturer attain-
ments could receive little addition from any observa-
tions I am able to offer upon a subject so familiar to
their studies as that of History.

AND EXTENT

JECT.

The first difficulty we encounter is, the want of I. SCOPE any precise notions of the scope and extent of the OF THE SUBsubject. In the whole range of literature, it would be difficult to point out one upon which the notions of men are more unsettled than upon that of History.

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IT is not an easy task to take a general survey of tion.
any extensive subject. If we aim at utility, we are
very apt to be dull; if we wish to be amusing, we
are liable to miss the point of utility to unite both
in the same discourse surpasses the talents of most
writers and speakers. Yet there is no subject which
more imperatively calls for the union of amusement
and utility, than that to which I have had the honour
to be appointed your reader. I am fully conscious
of my inability to extricate myself from the dilemma.
But if I succeed in conveying useful instruction to
the junior portion of my auditors, I feel no doubt of
the kind indulgence of those whose maturer attain-
ments could receive little addition from any observa-
tions I am able to offer upon a subject so familiar to
their studies as that of History.

AND EXTENT

JECT.

The first difficulty we encounter is, the want of I. SCOPE any precise notions of the scope and extent of the OF THE SUBsubject. In the whole range of literature, it would be difficult to point out one upon which the notions of men are more unsettled than upon that of History.

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