I have at present only a very faint and general recollection of its contents, and have in vain tried to procure a copy of it here.

I fear, however, that, differing widely as I do from Stewart and Mackintosh, I shall hardly agree with you.

My opinion is formed, not at second hand, like those of nine-tenths of the people who talk about Bacon; but after several very attentive perusals of his greatest works, and after a good deal of thought.

If I am in the wrong, my errors may set the minds of others at work, and may be the means of bringing both them, and me, to a knowledge of the truth.

I never bestowed so much care on anything that I have written.