Excerpt from Letters on the Study and Use of History, Vol. 1 I good deal of attention, the fubje t on which you command me to communi cate my thoughts to you: and I pra tifed in thofe days, as much as bufinefs and pleafure allowed me time to do, the rules that feemed to me necefl'ary to be obferved in the fiudy of hifiory. They were very different from thofe which Writers on the fame fubje 't have recom mended, and which are commonly prae volq I. B tieed. 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.