Excerpt from Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 2 of 6: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F. S. An;, And Many of His Learned Friends; An Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in This Kingdom During the Last Century After such various comments by so rna learned men, our Editor thinks he might very have put an end to the work here, and been excus from any farther trouble but, having engaged hi. Self by promise in his proposal, he has given us 501 conjectures and remarks of his own, as well upon t comments of those learned men before mentiom as upon the Marbles themselves, from p. 553 to (it Besides which, he has added a very copious Index both of Things and Words, with short notes fr quently interspersed, from p. 605 to 667. 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.