Excerpt from Gleanings for the Curious From the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta AN earlier edition of gleanings having attracted the hearty appro val oi a limited circle of that class of readers who prefer a running banquet that hath much variety, but little of a sort, the present pub lislier requested the preparation of an enlargement of the work. In the augmented form in which it is now offered to the public, the con tents will be found so much more comprehensive and omnifarious that, while it has been nearly doubled in size, it has been more than doubled in literary value. 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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