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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861. Excerpt: ... are to understand, that I shall not pretend to raise a credit to this work upon the weight of my politick news only, but, as my Latin sentence in the title page informs you, shall take any thing that offers for the subject of my discourse. Thus new persons, as well as new things, are to come under my consideration i as when a toast or wit is first pronounced such, you shall have the freshest advice of their preferment from me, with a description of the beauty's manners, and the wit's stile; as also in whose places they are advanced. For this town is never good-natured enough to raise one without depressing another. But it is my design to avoid saying any thing of any person, which ought justly to displease; but shall endeavour, by the variety of the matter and stile, to give entertainment for men of pleasure, without offence to those of business. Tuesday, April 12, 1709. CHAPTER t LETTER FROM A RURAL CORRESPONDENT--PLEASURES OF THE COUNTRY MR. BICKERSTAFF's ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF GENEALOGY OF THE STAFFS, AND HOW THE RACE WAS IMPROVED. have received this short epistle from an unknown hand.... "sir, "That the country is barren of news, has been the excuse, time out of mind, for dropping a correspondence with our friends in London; as if it were impossible out of a coffee-house to write an agreeable letter. I am too ingenuous to endeavour at the covering of my negligence with so common an excuse. Doubtless, amongst friends bred as we have been, to the knowledge of books as well as men, a letter dated from a garden, a grotto, a fountain, a wood, a meadow, or the banks of a river, may be more entertaining than one from Tom's, Will's, White's, or St. James's. I promise therefore to be frequent for the future in my rural dates to you: but for fear you should, from w...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150747986
- ISBN 13 9781150747984
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages102
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