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Excerpt from The History of England, Vol. 1 of 8: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than 'my Treatife Of Human Nature. It fell dead 507m from the pre/i, without reaching fuch difline tion as even to excite a murmui among the zealots But being naturally of a cheerful and fanguine tem per, I very foon recovered the blow, and profecuted with; great ardour my ftudies in the country. In 1742 I printed at Edinburgh the firft part of my Effays: The work was favourably received, and foon made me entirely forget my former difappoint, ment. I continued with my mother and brother in the_country, and in that time recovered the know ledge of thevgreek language, which I had too much negleete'd in my early youth. 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.
