Excerpt from Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne: Taken From Original SourcesNo doubt the drudgery of the work, the wading through all the newspapers, and reading all the literature of the time, has deterred many from attempting what, in its execution, has proved a very pleasant task for in doing it, one has got to be thoroughly identified with the age - its habits and customs which, being taken from the very words of the people, then living, writing for living people, who could contradict their state ments, if false or exaggerated, a charm was lent to the task, which fully compensated for its labour.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.