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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: nous, and fatiguing the reader by a superabundance of minute details and constant repetitions; nor was I actuated by any other motive; and, although the trouble and responsibility rested with me exclusively, I was very much guided, in making the selection, by the opinion of two revered Relatives, now unhappily no more, in whose judgment and literary experience I reposed the highest confidence. Still, a very general notion prevailed, that I had used the pruning-knife with too much freedom; and some persons even assumed that the most entertaining passages had been excluded; whilst it was suggested from many quarters that, if ever the Diary should be reprinted, the opportunity of bringing it forth as nearly as possible Ctr. in its integral' shape VjugTifififrt to be neglected. Anxious, httvreYijFf.as.jC'feit to adopt such a course as migit'satisfy.'all parties, I found, after once more.'ca'tefiiljjcJnQdipg over the whole of the MS., that a literal transcript of the Diary was absolutely inadmissible: I determined, therefore, in preparing the forthcoming edition, to insert in its proper place every passage that had been omitted, with the exception only of such entries as were devoid of the slightest interest, and many others of so indelicate a character, that chapter{Section 4no one with a well-regulated mind will regret their loss; nor could they have been tolerated, even in the licentious days to which they relate. It should also be observed, that no part of the Diary previously printed has been suppressed, and the ipsissima verba of the author are studiously retained, a few words only being occasionally introduced between brackets, where the sense was obscure or doubtful. How far the part of the work hitherto unseen will meet the views of those readers who seem...

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