Excerpt from A Descriptive Account of the Literary Works of John Britton, F. S. A., &C., &C., &C: From 1800 to 1849; Being a Second Part of His Auto-Biography Having begun, in company with some young associates, to practise the art of short-hand writing, I took copious notes of those lectures, for the subject of which I had, even at that time, a strong partiality. The lecturer, always anxious to encourage the youthful student, offered a pre mium for the best copy of his first lecture, and awarded the same to me. From that circumstance there arose. 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.