PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, By R. Taylor and Co. Black-Horse Court, Fleet Street. Free YORKVILLE BRANCH, IT is equally true of books as of their authors, that one generation passeth away and another cometh. Whoever has lived long enough to compare one race of men with that which has preceded it, will have observed a change, not only in the tastes and habitudes of common life, but in the fashion of their studies, and their course of general reading. Books influence manners; and manners, in return, influence the taste for books. Books make a silent and gradual, but a sure change in our ideas and opinions; and as new authors are continually taking possession of the public mind, and old ones falling into disuse, new associations insensibly take place, and shed their influence unperceived over our taste, our VOL. I. a manners. |