Excerpt from Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain, Arranged According to an Alphabetical Catalogue of Their Names, Vol. 1 of 2: And Including a List of Their Works, With Occasional Opinions Upon Their Literary Character Abridgment ot Penal Statutes, 8142. Which was Iirfl publilhed in an o tavo volume, in 177 5, and which reached the fourth edition In gum, with large additions and annotations, in 1795. 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.