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Excerpt from The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Vol. 5 of 5: A New Edition, Containing Pieces Hitherto Uncollected, and a Life of the Author; Prefaces and Introductions: Animated Nature (Extracts): Nobleman's Letters: Goody Two-Shoes: Index
Sensible of this truth, it is not expected to enhance the excellencies or palliate the faults of the succeeding Memoir. The public will scarce be in?uenced in their judgment by an obscure prefacer; and perhaps the work might rather suffer by his misplaced admiration. To confess a truth, be hardly knows how to introduce it to the public attention, and even to procure it a reading, among the multiplicity of modern publications.
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