The British Essayists, Vol. 24 of 40

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Excerpt from The British Essayists, Vol. 24 of 40: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical, and Critical, World, Vol, II All the fashionable part of mankind set out with the ambition of being thought men of taste. This is the present universal passion, but the mis fortune is, that, like sportsmen, who lose their hare and start conies, which lead them over warrens, where their horses break their legs, and ¿ing their riders, so in the affair of taste, we frequently see men following some false scent, with the same ardour that they would have pursued the proper object of a chase, and with much greater inconveniences. 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.