Excerpt from Songs by the Way: Chiefly Devotional, With Translations and Imitations To their Author, its Contents have most literally been, songs BY the way loose numbers, framed in the intervals of an arduous avocation, and of severe study. It is deemed sufficient, without resorting to any of those ingenious pleas, which, from time immemorial, have brought the sins of unwilling authors upon the heads of kind and importunate friends, simply to state, that though some parts of the volume were written several years ago, and all of it at periods more or less remote from the present date, no idea of its publication was entertained, until within a very short time before it was put to press. 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.