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Excerpt from Fragments: In Prose and Verse
E iv J its affection, and to strew a few flowers on the humble tomb of departed virtue. The following pages will not be found to contain a single sentence which can give pain to any human be ing and though nothing in this collection was writ ten with a view to publication, yet as the delicacy which always shrunk from observation cannot now be Wounded by praise or blame, it is, I hope, allowable to remove the veil which an excess of modest reserve threw over uncommon merit. 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.
