Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett M. D, Vol. 3: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings; Containing, the Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Part II., And Plays and Poems The mm which your lordlhip gave to the converfation of laft night, havin laid me under the neceflitypf vin dicating the flep I have lately taken in publifhing Me moirs of my Life, I think I have a right to demand your Opinion of the motives which I then explained; and this I all; by way of appeal to your judgment, from the fenti ments Of thofe who might perhaps think my inducements were weak or frivolous. For though no perfon in the company attempted to invalidate the arguments I advan ccd, I could perceive that one gentleman was not altogether convinced of the rectitude of that meafure You may re member, he dropped feveral diffenting hints, couched in the modeit exprefiions Of, witbfubmjflion to your lady/bip'r betterjua'gment - But, to be fare, you would not bane taken file/j afiep withoutfirfl t/ze cwfiguencer - four'bm evocation; were certainly wry great, alt/jozzg/j ilje wcrla' is apt to put ibe 'wmfi cozfirufiiom upon every thing - And other fuch prudential infinuations that are Often more difcon certing than the difplayed Objeflions of a declared an tagonift becaufe they feem to import fomething of great weight, which perfonal refpeet endeavours to fupprefs. Thefe fententious fragments made fuch impreflion upon my mind, that I have been all night long talking my re colleetion, in order to difcover the weak {ide Of my de fence; but, as one always fees through the mill of par tiality in one's own concerns, I mull have rccourfe to your difcernment, and ferioufly infill upon knowing how far you approve the 'juf'tification of, M y Lord, i Our Lordfhip's mull obedient fervan' 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.