Excerpt from Flowers of Literature, for 1804, or Characteristic Sketches of Human Nature and Modern Manners: To Which Is Added a General View of Literature During That Period Bht amidst our pride and gratitude for the approbation we have received, there is a cir cumstance on which we pique ourselves in.no trivial degree. We have always resisted, with persevering firmness, every temptation with which we have been assailed by the lax mos tality of novelists, the pretended philanthropy1 of modern politicians, and the sophisticated reaq tonings of some recent sentimentalists, .to adopt. In our volumes indelicate paragraphs, party, absurdities, or disloyal inuendoee. By stitchi firmness, instead of having excited the cenante of those tremendous potentates, the Reviewers, whose condemnation the most spirited writer. Cannot withstand, we have received their, um qualified praise for our honest endeavours in support of the altar and the throne, of pure morality and refined taste. The Monthly, the auti-jacobin, the British Critic, and the Critical Reviews; the Monthly Mirror, the Literary Journal, the Gentleman's and the European Magazines, have all spoken of our exertions in the most flattering terms. 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.