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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Vol. 1: With Lists of Their Works: By the Late Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford; Enlarged and Continued to the Present Time <p>The author of this work (say the Critical Reviewers) is modest enough to call it a Catalogue; but we apprehend it might with more propriety be styled Characters for we not only find a list of the works, but also a peremptory and decisive judgment passed upon the merit or demeritzof each performance: my, the same liberty is generally take. With the moral character of the author. - An anonymous writer of Observations on the above Critical Review, remarked that Mr. Walpole had promised to give the world s Coho. Logue, and he gives them somethmg more: he is better. Therefore than his w Lord Orford, in his preface, announces that part of his design was to scrutinize Chi-a. Teeters, rind that he had allowed himself a sort of Jicqnsg. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.