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PATER'S NOTE: The nine papers contained in the following volumeoriginally appeared anonymously in The Guardian newspaper.
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[3] THE making of an anthology of English prose is what must haveoccurred to many of its students, by way of pleasure to themselves, orof profit to other persons. Such an anthology, the compass and varietyof our prose literature being considered, might