PLAGIARISMS, OR PARALLEL PASSAGES

I have placed under this title in my note-books, more than one instance of similarity of thought, incident, or expression that I have met with during a somewhat desultory course of reading. These instances I shall take the liberty of laying before you from time to time, leaving you and your readers to decide whether such similarity be the effect of *accident* or *design*; but I flatter myself that they may be accepted as *parallel passages* and *illustrations*, even by those who may differ from me in the opinion I have formed on the relation which my "loci inter se comparandi" bear to each oth…