The Compleat English Gentleman

Excerpt from The Compleat English Gentleman Thus, allowing some time for the news to reach Loud/on, and taking into account the delay mentioned in the letter, we get the year 1728 and the earlier half Of 1729 as the date of composition. 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.

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