Excerpt from The Gentleman's Miscellany: Consisting of Essays, Characters, Narratives, Anecdotes, and Poems, Moral and Entertaining, Calculated for the Improvement of Gentlemen in Every Relation in Life The duties of every relation in life, -and ihe bene fits refulting from the uniform practice of: thofe da ties, are held out and enforced both from examples and experience. To enliven the moral and ferions parts of this Work, pleafing Narrativer, Anecdoter, and Foam, are interfperfed, which are intended to renv der it, agreeable to the uti/e da/ti of the ancients, both raorx'ruua and entertaining. How far it ii calculated to anfwer thefe purpofes, mull be left to the decifion of the judicious and difcerning reader. 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.