Excerpt from Private Thoughts Upon the Relicks of Antiquity: Or Pleasant Retirement in WalesWhen the following letters Were first Written, I had not the slightest idea bf making them public but, being at this time destitute of every other means of gaining emolument, [have been request ed by many gentlemen toj submit thesef epistles to the world., The apology for? Defects, and for youth and inexperience; and the acknowledgement of inability to resist the importunate solicitation of discerning friends; are ever supposed to be insincere, and (should they be true, they ought to cause a total suppression of that Work for which apologies are given.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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