Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)

Project Gutenberg's Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries), by VariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)Author: VariousRelease Date: June 4, 2004 [EBook #12515]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELECTED ENGLISH LETTERS ***Produced by Dave Morgan, Bill Hershey and PG Distributed ProofreadersSELECTED ENGLISH LETTERS(XV-XIX CENTURIES)ARRANGED BYM. DUCKITT & H. WRAGG1913.PREFACEThis anthology has been compiled with rather mixed motives. First, 'all for our delight'—a rule that editors sometimesobserve, and occasionally acknowledge; then, with the desire to interest as large a section of the public as may be. Hereis a medley of gay, grave, frivolous, homely, religious, sociable, refined, philosophic, and feminine,—something for everymood, and for the proper study of mankind. We do not hope to satisfy all critics, but we do not anticipate that we shallplease none. Our difficulty has been that of choice. Many pleasant companions we have had to pass by; to strike from ourlist many excellent letters. Those that remain are intended to present as complete a portrait of the writer as spacepermits. Occasionally it was some feature of the age, some nicety of manners, some ...