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Title: Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1.

Author: Samuel Warren

Release Date: January 17, 2010 [EBook #31004]

Language: English

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TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR.

[Illustration: Portrait of the author.]

TEN THOUSAND A-YEAR.

BY

SAMUEL WARREN, F.R.S.

VOL. I.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1900.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

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To Emily,

A LITTLE BLUE-EYED LAUGHING IMAGE OF PURITY
AND HAPPINESS,

_THESE VOLUMES ARE INSCRIBED_

AS A SLIGHT MEMORIAL OF A FATHER'S AFFECTION
FOR AN ONLY DAUGHTER.

_October_, 1841.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

The author provided thirty-three notes to the text. They are indicated
by numbers in square brackets, as[12]. The notes themselves are at the
end of the document. To find note number 12, search for "Note 12".

This edition contains only ASCII text (ISO-8859-1). The oe ligature is
rendered simply as oe. Two Greek phrases in the Notes are shown in
Beta-code.

Four typographical errors were corrected in transcription: Gamman for
Gammon, p. 169; possisible for possible, p. 195; familarly for
familiarly, p. 250; and possesssion for possession, p. 402.

PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.

The fact that a well-printed edition of this notable story has not been
in print either in England or America since its original publication in
1841 is a sufficient reason for the present edition.

It includes the valuable notes in which the author elucidated the "many
legal topics contained in the work, enabling the non-professional reader
to understand more easily the somewhat complex