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Excerpt from The British Critic, Vol. 14: For July, August, September, October, November, and December, 1799 T matters not, fays Seneca, how'many books you have, but how good they We are clearly of the fame opinion, and therefore make a re gular felee'tion for our readers; from which, if they (elect again, according to their various purpofes, the advice of, the old Stoie will be fufficiently obferved in their purchafes their flielves will not be loaded by number, but graced by value 5 and, for the chafms left upon them, it would be better that they fhould be filled for a time by the carpenter, than too preci pitately fupplied by the dealers in paper and ink. 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.