AND HURST, BOBBISON, AND COMPANY,
LONDON
TO
THE THIRD VOLUME.
ACCORDING to the arrangement announced in the Advertisement prefixed to this Work, the Second Part of Mr STEWART's Dissertation on the Progress of Metaphysical, Ethical, and Political Philosophy, ought to have appeared with the present Half-Volume. The Editor has been induced so far to depart from that arrangement, as, in the meantime, to substitute Mr BRANDE's Dissertation, which was originally intended to be given with the Fifth Volume; and to give the remaining Part of Mr Stewart's Dissertation with the First Half of the Fourth Volume. The Second Part of PROFESSOR PLAYFAIR's Dissertation on the Progress of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences, will accompany the First Half of the Fifth Volume. Directions will afterwards be given as to how the whole ought ultimately to be placed.
The Editor takes this opportunity to state, that the Work is likely to extend beyond Five Volumes, the number specified in the Advertisement. There are many of the Letters of the Alphabet under which the number of Articles necessary to be given will be comparatively small; and the Editor has endeavoured, by numerous retrenchments from his original plan, so to model the whole, as to keep within the intended limits; but he sees reason to fear, that this object could not be accomplished, without such a mutilation of the plan as would be greatly prejudicial to the utility of the Work. He does not, therefore, anticipate any displeasure from now announcing, that it may probably extend to, but not beyond, Six Volumes.
Edinburgh, February 1818.
A contrast to the arrangement adopted in the advertisement inserted to this work, the second part of the Grammar & Dictionary on the reverse of the preceding pages, and the whole of the work is now arranged with the present title-page. The title has been introduced in order that from that arrangement it is the merit, it is admitted, the reader's discretion, which was originally intended to be given with the first volume, and to give the remaining part of the Grammar & Dictionary with the first part of the French Volume. The second part of the French Volume's illustration in the Appendix to the Dictionary and Appendix will accompany the first part of the French Volume. Instructions will afterwards be given as to how the whole ought ultimately to be placed.
The Editor takes the opportunity to state that the work is likely to reach before 1800 volumes, the number varying in the advertisement. There are many of the parts of the Appendix which the number of volumes is not yet known with certainty, and the Editor has endeavoured by numerous communications from the original plan to make the work as to look within the intended limits, and has endeavoured to the best of his ability to be as complete as possible, a translation of the work which he would regard as a valuable addition to the work. He has also endeavoured to make the work as complete as possible, and has endeavoured to make the work as complete as possible.
By WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE,