Excerpt from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great But befides the two Obvious advantages of furvey in g, as it were in a pieture, the true beauty of virtue, and deformity of_ vice, we may moreover learn from Plutarch, Nepos, Suetonius, and other biographers, this ufeful lern, not too bafiily, nor in the grofs to bellow either our praife or cenfure; huco we {hall Often find fuch a mixture of good and evil in the fame charaeter, that it may require a very accurate judg ment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which lide the balance turns: for tho' we fometimes meet with an Arifiridcs or a Brutus, a Lyfander or a Nero, yet far the greater number are Of the mixt kind. 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.