Excerpt from The Republican Compiler: Comprising a Series of Scientific, Descriptive, Narrative, Popular, Biographical, Epistolary, and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse After this brief exposition of the motives to which the ensuing es owe their origin, it might, rhaps, ' be con sistent wit prudence, to leave them to this judgement of the public, without any further prefatory observations. It may, however, be considered a matter of formality, if not oi necessity, to state cursorily the outlines of the plan which has been (pursued, with regard to the selection and arrangement 0 the diti'erent subjects included in the work. In the choice of the subjects, a departure from the system generally adopted by compilers, has been ventured upon; and it rests with popular Opinion, (to which tribunal the reapers, as well as gleaners, of the literary harvest must consider themselves amenable) to decide whether the innovation is justified by its probable beneficial effects. 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.