METAPHYSIC RAMBLES, BY WARNER CHRISTIA NSEARCH. LL. D. F. R. S. AND M. R, I. A. O gen attonitum gelidæ formidine mortis, -quid nomina vana timetis, MATERIEN vatum ?- Morte carent anima; semperque, priore relictâ OVID. DUBLIN. MILLIKEN AND SON, GRAFTON-STREET. BOOKSELLERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. LONDON: B. FELLOWES, LUDGATE STREET. 1835. 658. STRONG APPLICATION-LONG HESITATION-WRONG TERMINATION-VIZ. DEDICATION. I HAVE been applied to, by my respectable publisher, for the filling of a few pages more. Why so applied to, I perhaps could not reveal, without divulging the secrets of that prison-house-the compositor's boudoir. Suffice it to say, that certain pages, in as yet unfed attendance,* are described as being pale,-if not as a sheet, at least as half a sheet,+-and emblems, in default of types, of mere and total inanition.-But what nutriment can my exhausted ink-bottle supply? "A table of contents," replies compositor; "a list of errata, and a dedication."- -For the contents, be it so, (as judges say, when they are granting an application ;) and I have only to wish, that amongst the contents, my indulgent readers may be found. But, for the * And which are wanting (i. e. being wanted) to complete my typographical establishment, or suite. For, I am told, there are but six of them. α |