Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine: With a Full and Fair Account of All His Authoring Transactions; Being a Sure and Infallible Guide for All Enterprising Young Men Who Wish to Make a Fortune by Writing Pamphlets HE Celebrated Deanof fome where obferves, that a man of talents no fooner emerges from obfcuritythan all. The block heads are infiantly up inerms againfl him. Fully' perfuaded of the truth of this obfervaz tion, I {hould have been. Prepared for hofiility, had I ima ined myfelf.a, man'0f talents; but, ing't e contrary too well, I littleexpt-s ed that the harmlefs efl'ays from my pen would have conjured up againft me this numerous and fiu'pid hof't. It is their misfortune, never: to form a right conception of any perfon or thing, and therefore their abufe is n0t always a cer tain proof of merit in the objeet. On which it is bellowed: their ignorance lefi'ens the honour conferred by their envy, hatred and malice. 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.