Excerpt from The Edinburgh Annual Register for 1808, Vol. 1: Part First The deviation fiom their original plan, which the Proprie tors thinh it necessary to explain, consists in the omission of originalessays upon suh'ects of Morality, Literature, and Sci ence. They found, in the first place, that their limits would prove inadequate to the fifilment of a plan so extensive as that originally delineated and, in the second, more mature deli beration inclined them to think, that such discussions did not properly fall under the plan of a Register, which is rather a record of what has actually taken place, than a receptacle fir Essays, however able or ingenious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.