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Preface To Volume The Ninth.
PREFACE TO VOLUME THE NINTH .
" ? STE cannot commence another volume of this Magazine , without * * expressing" our grateful acknowledgments to our Subscribers and Correspondents . The first have been numerous , and the latter respectable . We trust that we have hitherto succeeded in meriting their far voursand we can venture to promise that our future endeavours
, will far exceed our past exertions . Improvements in the plan of our Work have been begun in this Number , and we feel a confidence in saying , that . the arrangements which are now formed for the conduct of our Miscellany , are such as to promise not only a continuance , but an increase of the public favour .
It is our wish and determination to make our Miscellany a complete Repertory of Arts , Sciences , and Manufactures . And that we may do this , we inteir' to present our readers not only a regular report of scientific inventions and discoveries , but also a yearly , or half-yearly retrospect of the History of Science , illustrated with plans and suitable engravings .
In the Historical and Biographical department we mean to be particularly select ; and to intro'luce no other characters than such as have been eminently distinguished by their talents and their virtues . Of persons of this description we shall be particularly careful to present memoirs minute , accurate , and spirited . In that department of our work , entitled the
FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY ,
we propose to be more systematic than hitherto . It is our intention to present to those of our readers , for whose use this part is designed , a regular view and elucidation of the different degrees and Offices of Masonry . The higher branches of our Order will here call for our especial notice , and with the valuable aids of which we are possessed , there is no doubt in our minds of our being able to compose a MASONIC SYSTEM OF K- NOWLEBGIS far more refined and
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Preface To Volume The Ninth.
PREFACE TO VOLUME THE NINTH .
" ? STE cannot commence another volume of this Magazine , without * * expressing" our grateful acknowledgments to our Subscribers and Correspondents . The first have been numerous , and the latter respectable . We trust that we have hitherto succeeded in meriting their far voursand we can venture to promise that our future endeavours
, will far exceed our past exertions . Improvements in the plan of our Work have been begun in this Number , and we feel a confidence in saying , that . the arrangements which are now formed for the conduct of our Miscellany , are such as to promise not only a continuance , but an increase of the public favour .
It is our wish and determination to make our Miscellany a complete Repertory of Arts , Sciences , and Manufactures . And that we may do this , we inteir' to present our readers not only a regular report of scientific inventions and discoveries , but also a yearly , or half-yearly retrospect of the History of Science , illustrated with plans and suitable engravings .
In the Historical and Biographical department we mean to be particularly select ; and to intro'luce no other characters than such as have been eminently distinguished by their talents and their virtues . Of persons of this description we shall be particularly careful to present memoirs minute , accurate , and spirited . In that department of our work , entitled the
FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY ,
we propose to be more systematic than hitherto . It is our intention to present to those of our readers , for whose use this part is designed , a regular view and elucidation of the different degrees and Offices of Masonry . The higher branches of our Order will here call for our especial notice , and with the valuable aids of which we are possessed , there is no doubt in our minds of our being able to compose a MASONIC SYSTEM OF K- NOWLEBGIS far more refined and