Literature in Letters: Or Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and Morals, Illustrated in the Correspondence of Eminent Persons (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Literature in Letters: Or Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and Morals, Illustrated in the Correspondence of Eminent Persons

Such letters, says Lord Bacon, as are written from Wise men, are, of all the words of man, in my judgment, the best for they are more natural than orations and public Speeches, and more advised than conferences or private ones. The sources of pleasure and instruction to be found in the private correspondence of eminent persons, have never been fully explored; much less have they been rendered accessible to the bulk of the reading public. Our language abounds in letters Which contain the most vivid pictures of manners, and the most faithful and striking delineations of character; Which are full of wit, Wisdom, fancy, useful knowl edge, noble and
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