The Advantages of Knowledge to the Lower Classes: Advertisement

To attempt to disarm the severity of criticism by humiliation or enti’eaty, would be a hopeless task. Waving every apology, the Author, therefore, bas only to remark, that the motives of a writer must ever remain a secret, but the kndency of what he writes, is capable of being ascertained j and is in reality the only consideration in which the public are interested. The Author is concerned at an unexpected coincidence in the text, betwixt this and a very excellent discourse, delivered on a similar occasion, and published by his much esteemed friend, the Rev. Francis Coxe. The coincidence was entirely accidental, and the text in each instance being employed very much in tho manner of a motto, it is hoped the train of thought will be found sufficiently distinct. He cannot conclude without recommending to the public, and to the young especially, the serious perusal of the above mentioned animated and impressive discourse.