Excerpt from Essays, Moral and Religious Some Of these productions bear upon their face the evidence that they were called forth by particular public events; it is hoped they will be none the less interesting on that account. Should the reader think they were written with a hurried pen, he would not be wrong; should he com plain Of this, he would have the sympathies of the author. They should, indeed, have been carefully rewritten before they met the public eye; but such are the writer's engagements, that the only question with him was whether they should go to press in their present form or not at all. He preferred the latter alternative till he was overpersuaded by his friends, and by the circumstances in which they had placed him. As the essays are more in the style of verbal address than they would be if rewritten, they will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.