Jihn Selden Table-Talk

Excerpt from Jihn Selden Table-Talk: 1689 To the younger class of readers at the present day John Selden is little more than a name. He is often spoken of, frequently quoted, but known to few. Like his great contemporary, Lord Bacon, for one that has read his works a thousand have heard of his name. And precisely as Bacon is now known to most readers chiefly by his small volume of Essays, on which he set least store, so is John Selden known, to those who read at all, by the short record of his Table-Talk, of which he himself knew nothing. It not unfrequently happens that an author's fame rests chiefly on that work, or that part of his work, of which he himself thought little. Now, as I feel convinced that John Selden, both as man and writer, ought to be better known, and that this knowledge is of the best and noblest, I have prepared this little work for those who know him only by name, or those who have no knowledge at all of him. 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.