Excerpt from Self-Knowledge: A Treatise, Shewing the Nature and Benefit of That Important Science, and the Way to Attain It; Intermixed With Various Reflections and Observations on Human Nature But there is a great Difierence be tween a fbort, occafional and ufeful Dz'grefion, and a wide Raine/ing from the Subject, by following the Impulfe of a luxuriant Fancy. A judicious tapte can hardly excufe the latter; tho' it may be content the Author {hould gather a few Flowers out of the common Road, provided he foon return into it agam. 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.