There is not a sentence in the latter half of the article which has not been repeatedly recast.

I have no expectation that the popularity of the article will bear any proportion to the trouble which I have expended on it.

But the trouble has been so great a pleasure to me that I have already been greatly overpaid.

Pray look carefully to the printing.
In little more than a year I shall be embarking for England, and I have determined to employ the four months of my voyage in mastering the German language.

I should be much obliged to you to send me out, as early as you can, so that they may be certain to arrive in time, the best grammar, and the best dictionary, that can be procured; a German Bible; Schiller's works; Goethe's works; and Niebuhr's History, both in the original, and in the translation.