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Excerpt from Letters, Essays, and Other Tracts Illustrating the Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland: Together With Many Curious Discoveries of the Affinity Betwixt the Language of the Americans and the Ancient Britons to the Greek and Latin, &C Very Man is naturallx inclin'd to Par tiality in Favour of his Country, and this l'artiality is nor only blamelefs, but even commendable, when it does not run into Excefis, and make him unjufi: to Others. If fome Nations have complained of their Nei hbours in this Article, none have had more Rea on than the Irzyk to do fo, in regard of Injury done to their Language, which, without be. In underood, has been hitherto cry'd down, and ti iwled by the Engli/b in general, and even by fome Gentlemen in particular, whofc fine Senfe and A g(R)§with the Dam: and the. 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.