ABSTRACT
It may be deemed a pleasing evidence of candour to confess that, in accordance with a modern usage adopted by other great authors, our Autobiographer has called in the aid of an obscure man of letters, for the purpose of adjusting his somewhat capricious orthography, – of clipping his vernacular tongue, so that it may speak with uency and correctness, – and of applying salutary bandages to Priscian’s head.2
