Excerpt from The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy, Vol. 3 of 3: With an Original Memoir, and Anecdotes of the Author But if the text may have lost somewhat of its original merit, the notes of M. Du Piles, which have hitherto accompanied it, have lost much more. Indeed it may be doubted whether they ever had merit in any cousi derable degree. Certain it is that they con tain such a parade of common-place quota tion, with SO small a degree of illustrative science, that I have thought prop'er'to expel them from this edition, in Order to make room for their betters. 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.