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Excerpt from An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting: With Proper Rules for the Exercise of That Pleasant Art May I hope that my dear men will pardon me for prefuming by the very publication of thefe rules) that they are not already abfolutely perfeét in this our art? Or at leafi, that they may not always have an ingenie ous Torment read y at hand tp inia? 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.