THE FRIEND: A SERIES OF ESSAYS, IN THREE VOLUMES, TO AID IN THE FORMATION OF FIXED PRINCIPLES IN POLITICS, MORALS, AND RELIGION, WITH LITERARY AMUSEMENTS INTERSPERSED. BY S. T. COLERIDGE, Esq. A NEW EDITION. Accipe principium rursus, formamque coactam VOL. I. CLAUDIAN. LONDON: PRINTED FOR REST FENNER, PATERNOSTER-ROW. Δίζει συ ψυχῆς ὀχετὸν, ὅθεν ἤ τίνι ταξει Σώματι θητέυσας ἔπι ταξιν, ἄφ' ἧς ἐρύσθῃς, Αὖθις ἀνασήσεις, ἱέρῳ ΛΟΓΩ ἔργον ἐνώσας. ΖΩΡΟΑΣΤΡΟΥ Λογία. ADVERTISEMENT. THE FRIEND was originally printed on stamped paper, and circulated exclusively, by the general post, among the scanty number of subscribers with what advantage to himself the Author has already related in his Literary Life. Subscriptions still out-standing may be sent to the Author by the post, if there should be no means of conveying the sum without that drawback; or left for him at Messrs. Boosey and Sons, Booksellers, Broad-street. The present volumes are rather a rifacciamento than a new edition. The additions forming so large a proportion of the whole work, and the arrangement being altogether new, I might indeed hesitate in bestowing the title of a republication on a work, which can scarcely be said to have been ever published, in the ordinary trade acceptation of the word. Highgate. S. T. COLERIDGE. VOL. I. b FRIEND! were an Author privileged to name his own judge-in addition to moral and intellectual competence I should look round for some man, whose knowledge and opinions had for the greater part been acquired experimentally: and the practical habits of whose life had put him on his guard with respect to all speculative reasoning, without rendering him insensible to the desirableness of principles more secure than the shifting rules and theories generalized from observations merely empirical, or unconscious in how many departments of knowledge, and with how large a portion even of professional |