Collected Papers, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Collected Papers, Vol. 1: Historical, Literary, Travel and Miscellaneous The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press having paid me the high compliment of offering to publish my Collected Papers, I have made a selection from my contributions to periodicals in the course of the last sixty years, or thereabouts, adding a few lectures or addresses not hitherto made public, at least in the form in which they were delivered. I have not thought it desirable to attempt to bring any of these Papers 'up to date, ' or to make any changes in them except such as were necessitated by unintentional misstatements of facts or by slips of diction. In a few instances, I have added an observation or two that seemed called for in the way of postscript. I have divided this Collection under the three heads: Historical, Literary and Travel and Miscellaneous, although well aware that these designations, like the papers to which they are applied, may occasionally overlap one another. When, so long ago as 1866, I was appointed to the professorship of English Language and Literature, and of Ancient and Modern History, in Owens College, Manchester, a perhaps naturally 'truant disposition' could, in the sequel, hardly fail to be encouraged in a systematic dissipation of such energies as it possessed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.