Collection of One Hundred Pieces of English Literature
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Nayler, B. S.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Collection of One Hundred Pieces of English Literature: Fifty in Prose and Fifty in Verse, Accompanied With a Variety of Notes, for the Use of the Inhabitants of the Netherlands Ladies and Gentlemen, When I commenced Publishing these Sheets, I intended to have given a very different Selection to the one now presented; I purposed inserting several rare and some unpublished pieces, both in Prose and Poetry; but finding that very few Copies were ordered, notwithstanding the numbers that were used, I was under the necessity of selecting other Pieces, in order to lessen the Expense of Printing; for (strange to say!) the number of Subscribers to this Collection falls short of Fifty - the Amsterdam and Leyden Subscribers united! - and it is painful to a generous mind to record, that many Copies of the Work have been destroyed by persons taking away Odd Sheets - some, probably, without reflecting that each deficient Sheet was, to me, the total loss of a Volume - whether such Sheets were taken with or without consideration, it is not for me to determine; but 1 know, that had I been guilty of taking away what did not belong to me, I should have considered it my Duty to have paid for as many Sets as I had broken; nor can I look upon that conduct in Others favorably, which 1 should condemn in myself. No one was obliged to Subscribe to this Collection, nor was any one solicited to Subscribe; and no one had a right to take away any Sheets, nor had any one my permission to do so. In what 1 have thought proper to say on this subject, I trust that the Subscribers will not accuse me of Impertinence, nor the Transgressors of Flattery. 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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