2 a price so exceedingly cheap that every person of ordinary taste and advantages may thus become possessed of a Complete Library of the Selectest Literature of the Language and the Age. In this collection it is intended to include the best pro ductions in every department of knowledge; popular philosophical treatises on topics of universal interest; the most compact and brilliant historical books; valuable biographical memoirs; modern voyages and travels, &c.; together with scientific and other collateral divisions; in the selection of all which, the most careful discrimination will be observed. A mere glance over the wide domain of our English literature will exhibit much yet unexplored and uncultivated, from which might be gathered the fruits of a rich, luxuriant harvest; besides which, the ever-teeming issues of the European press open up a vast revenue of literary wealth, from which the above collection may be liberally supplied. Original productions of American writers will also occasionally be introduced. In submitting, therefore, the esteemed work of Prof. Whewell as a kind of first-fruits of their new " Miscellany," the publishers deem it only necessary to add, that their arrangements for carrying forward the enterprise being of the most complete and efficient kind, they confidently rely upon their efforts being met with a ready response from the entire reading community. This, they venture to believe, will be insured to their Miscellany, no less from the intrinsic value of the collection, than from its unparalleled economy; each volume being elegantly produced, BOUND IN HANDSOME AND SUBSTANTIAL STYLE, FITTED WITHOUT FARTHER EXPENSE FOR PERMANENT PRESERVATION IN THE LIBRARY; the whole series being issued in uniform binding, while the price of each volume will be only Fifty Cents, far below the cost of any similar series of books yet published in this, or, it is believed, any other country. E THE ELEMENTS OF MORALITY, INCLUDING POLITY. BY WILLIAM WHEWELL, D.D., AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ΤΟ WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, ESQ., POET LAUREAT. MY DEAR MR. WORDSWORTH, I AM desirous that, if the present book finds its way to the next generation, it should make known to them that I had the great privilege of your friendship. And there is no one to whom I could with more propriety dedicate such a work: since in your Poems, at the season of life when the mind and the heart are most wrought on by poetry, I, along with many others, found a spirit of pure and comprehensive morality, operating to raise your readers above the moral temper of those times. I shall rejoice if it appear from the following pages, that such influences have not been wasted upon me. That you may long enjoy the reverence and affection with which England, on such grounds, regards you, is the wish and prayer of, MY DEAR MR. WORDSWORTH, Your cordial friend and admirer, W. WHEWELL. |