FROM THE COMMONPLACE BOOK OF RICHARD WHATELY, D.D. LATE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. BEING A COLLECTION OF NOTES AND ESSAYS MADE DURING THE PREPARATION OF HIS VARIOUS WORKS. EDITED BY MISS E. J. WHATELY. NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN. PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION. THE additions to this volume of Archbishop Whately's Miscellaneous Remains require some little explanation. It was not till the 'Remains' were actually in the press, that the remaining portions of the Commonplace Book,' which I had believed to be destroyed, were placed in my hands. They comprise the results of my father's private intellectual efforts at a period just before that at which the other volume commences; and though these earlier productions are, many of them, marked by a crudeness of style which would naturally belong to a younger and less practised writer, still many papers contain matter of so valuable and interesting a character, that it has been thought a selection from the best of them would form an acceptable addition to the later written, though earlier published, volume. |