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Excerpt from The Note Book of an Oxonian: By a Late Member of Brazen Nose College
Be it known to subscribers and others, that the author, who has always recorded his own remarks for the mere sake of amusement, and observed the manners of other people from fancy, was induced to bring forward the follow ing pages by the gentle admonitions of his purse, which, from the awful pressure of the times, has manifested in no slight degree, some unequivocal symptoms of a delicate decline: his estate being threadbare, and his best coat shew ing becoming marks of sympathy therewith, and above all, the present mules atque ignis emendas, have in a measure compelled him to book it. Every one is acquainted with the story of the Sheffield button maker, who went out on speculation to Constantinople with a cargo of his material, and found the Turks. 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.
