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   A

   COMMONPLACE BOOK

   OF

   Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies.


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   A COMMONPLACE BOOK--

   OF

   Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies.

   ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

   PART I.--ETHICS AND CHARACTER.

   PART II.--LITERATURE AND ART.

   BY MRS. JAMESON.

   "Un peu de chaque chose, et rien du tout,--a la francaise!"--MONTAIGNE.

   With Illustrations and Etchings.

   SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED.

   LONDON:
   LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.
   1855.


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PREFACE.


I must be allowed to say a few words in explanation of the contents of
this little volume, which is truly what its name sets forth--a book of
common-places, and nothing more. If I have never, in any work I have
ventured to place before the public, aspired to _teach_, (being myself a
_learner_ in all things,) at least I have hitherto done my best to
deserve the indulgence I have met with; and it would pain me if it could
be supposed that such indulgence had rendered me presumptuous or
careless.

For many years I have been accustomed to make a memorandum of any
thought which might come across me--(if pen and paper were at hand), and
to mark (and _remark_) any passage in a book which excited either a
sympathetic or an antagonistic feeling. This collection of notes
accumulated ins