Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Nevertheless, in spite of these recommendations, experience has shewn that there was something unattractive in his mode of handling the subject, arising in a great degree from a want of due con densation; for the work in question has never reached a second edition, and is chiefly kept to be appealed to in cases of difficulty or doubt, rather than to be taken up as an agreeable com panion to occupy a vacant hour. And yet the subject which he discusses is by no means devoid of interest, presenting to us, as it does, not merely the results of the sagacity, and practical experience of the Romans with reference to the most important of the practical arts of life, but. Also glimpses of the manners, sentiments, and social condition, of the most powerful and civilised people of the ancient world.
