Excerpt from The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart, Vol. 4 of 4 If I could have been prevailed with by the rhetoric of booksellers, or any other little regards, I might easily, instead of retrenching, have made very considerable additions; and by that means have perhaps taken the surest course to prevent the interloping of others. But if the press must needs be loaded, I had rather it should not be by my means. And therefore I may hope to be al lowed one word in the style of a publisher, (an Office liable to much censure, without the least pretension to merit or to praise, ) that, if I have not been much deceived by others and myself, the reader will hardly find one Letter ln this collection unworthy of the author, or which does not con. 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.