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Excerpt from The Critical Review; Or Annals of Literature, Vol. 1: Extended and Improved This Journal has now lived half the life of man; and of its first Conductors none remain. In this interval, various alternations in situation and circumstances must have influenced our conduct; but the first plan was so wife and judicious, that we have scarcely in any instance deviated from it, except, where from the different changes, our predecessors would probably have done the same. Since our last Address a new and unexpected source of difficulty has arisen. - The French Revolution forms an aera in history of considerable importance; and the controversies which this event and the conduct of the National Assembly have occasioned, compelled us to make every effort to keep pace with public anxiety. With this subject we found the rights of men intimately connected; our own constitution was again brought forward, and we had almost reason to dread innovations at home, from the zeal, the impetuosity of reformers, who were apprehensive that our neighbours would overtake us in the career. It was a subject on which we could not look with indifference; and, having had occasion to give our opinions in the beginning, it was necessary to be cautious left error might be propagated by ourselves, as it was peculiarly our duty to prevent its being disseminated by others. - While we have endeavoured strictly to adhere to our former plan, we have had numerous complaints to encounter, and various excuses to offer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."