Travels from Vienna through lower Hungary : with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress, in the year 1814 / by Richard Bright.

  • Bright, Richard, 1789-1858.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Travels from Vienna through lower Hungary : with some remarks on the state of Vienna during the Congress, in the year 1814 / by Richard Bright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    present volume ; and, although they no longer refer to pages within its own limits, he ventures to hope that they will be accomplished. Of the mode in which his performance has been executed, it is not for the author to speak at large ; and, whatever anxiety he may experience in submitting himself to the public, he feels, that he approaches them in a form which gives him no right to demand more than justice, or to solicit more than candour. If there be any point which appears to him peculiarly open to criticism, it is the minuteness of detail with which he has some- times treated matters connected with rural econo- my. This, however, has been done, with the wish of introducing the reader, as much as pos- sible, to a knowledge of the actual state of a truly agricultural people ; and they, to whom the con- dition of eight million of their fellow-creatures is a matter of any interest, will not shrink from the perusal of a work, because they perceive it to contain a few minute details. The arrangement is subject to those imperfections which generally arise where the form of Journal has been adopted ; but an Index is supplied, with the intention of remedying this inconvenience. The first two chapters cannot be considered as immediately connected with the main subject of