and the enabling them, when sufficiently advanced in years, to gain an honourable livelihood by their own exertions, they produced among themselves two volumes of this work, to which a third has since been appended from an American source. They are happy to acknowledge the liberality and promptitude of Mr. Colburn in seconding their object; and they venture to hope that these volumes may be considered to have some claim on public sympathy and support. London, July, 1841. CONTENTS |