History, Criticism, Biography, Poetry, & Romance. THE THIRD EDITION. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. NON OMNINO EX SCRIPTORUM OFFICINA SED VITÆ HUMANÆ SCHOLA. London: Printed by Henry Reynell, 21, Piccadilly, FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, 39, PATER-NOSTER-ROW, AND AT 30, SOUTHAMPTON-ROW, RUSSELL-SQUARE. FUND THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE EXCELLENT THE EVER REVERED SIR RALPH ABERCROMBIE; AND TO HIS SURVIVING ASSOCIATES, LORD HUTCHINSON AND LORD KEITH; ALSO TO LORD NELSON, SIR SIDNEY SMITH, AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL OF OUR ARMY AND NAVY, WHO UNITING INEXTINGUISHABLE COURAGE WITH CONSUMMATE SKILL, EXTERMINATED THE GALLIC CROCODILE ON THE BANKS OF THE NILE; DISSIPATED THE Plagues of eGYPT, AND RESCUED THAT COUNTRY FROM THE BITTEREST OF ALL ITS VISITATIONS; FROM THE COLONIZATION OF ATHEISTS, AND THE LEGISLATION of MARAUDERS; from plundER IN THE MASK OF DEVOTION, AND INFIDELITY UNDER THE VIZARD OF FANATICISM. |