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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.61893#0011
PREFACE
The Preliminary Discourse is intended
vol. i. a
The Author presents the following pages
to the Public with diffidence. He is aware
that the very title of “ a Tour through
Italy” is sufficient in itself to raise expec-
tation, which, as he has learned from the
fate of similar compositions, is more fre-
quently disappointed than satisfied. To
avoid as much as possible this inconve-
nience, he thinks it necessary to state pre-
cisely the nature and object of the present
work, that the reader may enter upon its
perusal with some previous knowledge of
its contents.
The Preliminary Discourse is intended
vol. i. a
The Author presents the following pages
to the Public with diffidence. He is aware
that the very title of “ a Tour through
Italy” is sufficient in itself to raise expec-
tation, which, as he has learned from the
fate of similar compositions, is more fre-
quently disappointed than satisfied. To
avoid as much as possible this inconve-
nience, he thinks it necessary to state pre-
cisely the nature and object of the present
work, that the reader may enter upon its
perusal with some previous knowledge of
its contents.