THE

SOMERS

COLLECTION OF TRACTS.

EDINBURGH:

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THE SECOND EDITION,

REVISED, AUGMENTED, AND ARRANGED,

BY -

WALTER SCOTT, Esq.

VOLUME FIRST.

The bent and genius of the age is best known in a free country, by the pamphlets and papers that come daily out,
as the sense of parties, and sometimes the voice of the nation.
PREFACE TO KENNET'S REGISTER.

Judex qui aliquid statuit, una parte audita tantum et inaudita altera, licet æquum statuerit, haud æquus fuerit.
Lp. COOK & JUST. INST.

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1809.