Excerpt from Various Thoughts on Politics, Morality, and Literature Suits or literature, I had intend ed principally, to convey my own thoughts, on a greater variety of fubjeets than any other {ingle opportunity afforded; yet my intention not being fully underflood, has injured the fale of my book, and prevented that extenfive circulation, which all Opinions deferve relating to the peace and happinefs of mankind; on this account, I have been induced to alter my delign, and leave the blunders, the quotations, the egotifm, the im pudence, and malevolence of the Purfuits of Literature, in that oblivion to which the pub lic feems now to have configned that book and its anonymous author, and to make no further ufe of him, than as the means of conveying my fentiments on many impor. 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.