Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of Bath Celebrities, Ancient and Modern: With Some Fragments of Local History Literary Institution, are, of themselves, sufficient to indicate the order of intellect that prevailed. In connection with all this, however, no name stands out with Special prominence as that of a local celebrity; a few emperors and generals share the chief honour of the public works because nothing could have been done without their initiation or sanction. All, therefore, that I. Can do in the way of biography is to mention the few to whom history has attributed certain undertakings. 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.