Download or read book Facetiæ and Miscellanies (Classic Reprint) written by William Hone and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Facetiae and Miscellanies Mr. Gifford likewise teaches, in the preface to his translation Of Juvenal, that the legitimate Office of satire is to hold up the vicious as Oh jects Of.reprobation and scorn, for the example Of others, who may be deterred by their sufferings; there is in Such men a wilfulness of disposition, which prompts them to bear up against shame, and to show how little they regard light reproof, by becoming more audacious in guilt: vice, like folly, to be restramed, ' must be overawed. 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."