Dick Shifter was born in Cheapside, and, having passed reputably through all the classes of St. Paul’s school, has been for some years a student in the Temple.

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

Some principles, either wholly erroneous or too far extended, hindered our success from being always equal to our diligence.

At last, by a concurrence of many causes, the European world was roused from its lethargy; curiosity and translation found their way to Britain.