Excerpt from The Philosophy of Living: Or, the Way to Enjoy Life and Its Comforts
The author has found it necessary to make some corrections, and a few unimportant alterations in the present edition. The language is occasionally changed, and some expressions are modified; but the spirit and matter remain unaltered.
To write a book that would please all critics, or all good judges, would be a hopeless undertaking; one would think the matter good, another would call it bad; one would praise the style, and another would find fault with it; one would consider the whole excellent, and another would deem it execrable. In short, there would be as many opinions as there are tastes, and prejudices, and capabilities for judging; so that making a book to be universally approved, would be like making a garment to suit a whole community. Matter being the most important, it has, therefore, in the present volume received the greatest attention; but the author is flattered, by the rapid sale of the first edition of the work, that it has been favourably received with all its imperfections.
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