A Dictionary Of Quotations In Most Frequent Use Taken From The Latin And French But Comprising Many From The Greek Spanish And Italian Languages PDF Download

Excerpt from A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use: Taken Chiefly From the Latin and French, but Comprising Many From the Greek, Spanish, and Italian, Languages; Translated Into English With Illustrations Historical and Idiomatic When a work of this defcription, aiming only to be ufeful, has paired in a ibort time through three Editions, it may be (uppol'ed, without a Ruined inference, to have gamed the fanetion of thofe for whofe ufe it was intended. The Compiler, there: fore, finds it no longer necefi'ary to apologize for the novelty of the attempt, whatever palliations he may have to'ofl'er for the manner in which it has been brought forward. The firfi fltetch of this Work, he has fimply to fay, was drawn up for the' ufe of ajprlvate friend, and without a View to publication. By mere accident, it met the eye of a rnofi vyorthy and intelligent man, to whofe Zeal and fpirit the Public is indebted for Publications of infinitely higher importance - It was his opinion. 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.