Excerpt from Fitzosborne's Letters, on Several Subjects Under the tuition of his venerable father, and with the advantage of his good example, it is not difficult to suppose that he greatly improved in every estimable quality and though we are deprived, through his advanced age, of all information from the companions of his earlier years, we may safely conjecture, that they were so well husbanded, and sedu lously applied to the acquisition of literature and science, as to lay a solid foundation for that maturity and distinction in taste and judgment, which he afterwards displayed. He is said to have been as amiable and engaging in his progress to manhood, as he certainly became respectable and even worthy of reve rence in the later stages of his protracted existence. 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.