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MR. AND MRS. GILLMAN,

OF HIGHGATE,

THESE VOLUMES ARE DEDICATED,

IN TESTIMONY OF HIGH RESPECT AND GRATEFUL AFFECTION,

BY THEIR FRIEND,

October 7, 1818.
Highgate.

S. T. COLERIDGE.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION.

[1818.]

THE FRIEND was originally printed on stamped paper, and circulated exclusively, by the general post, among the scanty number of subscribers: with what advantage to himself the author has already related in his literary life. Subscriptions still outstanding may be sent to the author by the post, if there should be no means of conveying the sum without that drawback; or left for him at Messrs. Boosey and Sons, Booksellers, Broad-street. The present volumes are rather a rifacciamento than a new edition. The additions forming so large a proportion of the whole work, and the arrangement being altogether new, I might indeed hesitate in bestowing the title of a republication on a work which can scarcely be said to have been ever published, in the ordinary trade-acceptation of the word.

Highgate.

S. T. COLERidge.

DEDICATION TO THE SECOND EDITION.

FRIEND! were an author privileged to name his own judge—in addition to moral and intellectual competence I should look round for some man, whose knowledge and opinions had for the greater part been acquired experimentally; and the practical habits of whose life had put him on his guard with respect to all speculative reasoning, without rendering him insensible to the desirableness of principles more secure than the shifting rules and theories generalized from observations merely empirical, or unconscious in how many departments of knowledge, and with how large a portion even of professional men, such principles are still a desideratum. I would select, too, one who felt kindly, nay, even partially toward me; but one whose partiality had its strongest foundations in hope, and more prospective than retrospective would make him quick-sighted in the detection, and unreserved in the exposure of the deficiencies and defects of each present work in the anticipation of a more developed future. In you, honoured Friend! I have found all these requisites combined and realized; and the improvement which these Essays have derived from your judgment and judicious suggestions, would, of itself, have justified me in accompanying them with a public acknowledgment of the same. But knowing, as you cannot but know, that I owe in great measure the power of having written at all to your medical skill, and to the characteristic good sense which directed its exertion in my behalf; and whatever I may have written in happier vein to the influence of your society and to the daily proofs of your disinterested attachment-knowing too, in how entire a sympathy with your feelings in this respect, the partner of your name has blended the affectionate regards of a sister or daughter, with almost a mother's watchful and unwearied solicitudes alike for my health, interest, and tranquillity;—you will not, I trust, be pained—you ought not, I am sure, to be surprised—that

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