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Excerpt from Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries: With Notes, and Illustrations The Editor of the present volume has little to say in the way of Preface. His first intention was to have printed a Collection of Letters, chiefly of the time of Elizabeth and James the First, confined to Camden and his more learned friends: but he found that the interest likely to be awakened by such a Collection would have been more limited than the period embraced by the letters. He therefore enlarged his plan; and took his stand in point of time from this side of the Reformation to the close of the eighteenth Century: selecting from Correspondence which he believed to be hitherto unpublished, such Letters of eminent Men as it seemed useful to preserve. Many will be found in the present Collection which throw light upon the history of knowledge; a few express the disappointments, and some exhibit the infirmities of authors. 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.

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