Excerpt from Of Joy and Grief: Being a Selection of Original Pieces in Prose and Verse, Chiefly on Religious Subjects
When the subsequent miscellaneous pieces, were penned, I little thought that they would meet the public eye, but my pecuniary circumstances and the advice and persuasion of some judicious friends, have induced me to submit them to publication; though they were written from the impulse of feeling, under severe affliction: I hope, therefore, that these.circumstances will be a sufficient apology for my offering to the public liberality a work so humble and imperfect, composed at intervals of comparative ease during a long singular and distressing malady: a malady which deeply affected my head, and for the most part also the powers of my mind.
I hope the friends who have so generously subscribed to this little work will view it with a charitable eye. I am truly sensible that to a critical reader, many very many defects will be dicernible. One, I myself am sensible of, which is, Tautology, or dwelling too often on one subject. If my readers should think with me on this head, their liberality, I hope, will throw the mantle of charity over this fault; as it is a defect of the memory, which has become exceedingly treacherous, through the violence of my disorder.
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