Excerpt from Precious Stones: Aids to Reflection; From Prose Writers of the Sixteen, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries
IT is believed that the following pages contain some of the costliest thoughts in our English Prose. They are the fruit of independent reading, and the Collee tor has generally added distinct and minute references but in a few places they have been accidentally left im perfect. He would gladly have ga~ thered larger clusters from the abundant orchards of the seventeenth century: the flavour of these may turn eyes to the tree. Several of the writers are not commonly known, or read, as Henry Smith, Archbishop Williams, Digges.
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