Front matter

Transcriber’s Note:

Footnotes have been collected at the end of text, and are linked for ease of reference.

All Essays were subdivided into titled sections except Essay I (Roman and British Empires) and Essay IV. (Primitive Iceland).

The table of contents includes references to the Essays in Volume II.

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.

Any corrections are indicated using an underline highlight. Placing the cursor over the correction will produce the original text in a small popup.

Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate the reader to the corresponding entry in the corrections table in the note at the end of the text.

The blank cover has been modified to contain the basic information from the title page and, so modified, is placed in the public domain.