A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c28.10
A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c28.10
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It is with mingled feelings that I mark the hour of my final deliverance from a self-imposed task which has occupied all my spare time during the last 15 years and more—feelings not unlike those which overpowered the Historian of the Roman Empire. The reader will, I hope, forgive me if I venture to give expression to them in the words of Edmund Gibbon himself. "I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom. * * * * But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion."