Excerpt from Nollekens and His Times, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprehending a Life of That Celebrated Sculptor; And Memoirs of Several Contemporary Artists, From the Time of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to That of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake In the course of these pages, I have acknow ledged my obligations, to several friends for their kind communications, and here hope for their pardon, for havmg reserved this place for my best thanks to my friend Mr. Richard Thomson, the well-known author and editor of numerous most interesting works, for his kindness in many instances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.