The Counsels of William De Britaine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Counsels of William De Britaine<br><br>It hoped that this volume may not only be of general interest to thoughtful people, but may be considered specially suitable as a gift-book for any young man 'coming of age,' or leaving a public-school to enter the wider world of men and affairs.<br><br>It is a revision, or perhaps it would be more correct to say a re-writing, of the eleventh (1717) edition of a book called 'Humane Prudence,' the first edition of which appeared in 1680. Although the lesser writers of the Stuart period have been of interest to me for many years, it was not until 1895 that the title 'Humane Prudence' caught my eye from a catalogue-page which I was looking through. Since then I have examined copies of various editions of the work, and I consider the eleventh edition to be in some ways the best one. But anyone who has come across it will have seen that its puzzling printers errors, and its extraordinary melange of styles, make it little less in need of revision for a modern reader than any other edition of the work.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.