Excerpt from Memoirs, Including Letters, and Select Remains, of John Urquhart, Late of the University of St. Andrew's, Vol. 2 But I am awakened from this long reverie, by perceiving that it is near our dinner hour. I sat down in despondency, thinking I should hnd no thing to say; and resolved, by way of maki matter, to write a commentary on your epistle. I believe I shall make out pretty well in respect of quantity, if I paraphrase the whole of it at as great length as I have done these first few sentences. 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.