Download or read book Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Grey Graham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century Women of Letters, for strictly speaking it describes women who were not literary persons, like their learned sisters in England. Their whole output consisted of one or two songs; yet these have survived the laborious contributions of women of letters south of the Border. An apology is certainly due to the shades of those high-born dames for bringing them into the com. 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.