Excerpt from Life and Letters of Dr. William Beaumont: Including Hitherto Unpublished Life of Samuel Johnson I was sometimes obliged to run half over London in order to fix a date correctly; which, when I had accomplished, I well knew could obtain me no praise, though a failure would have been to my discredit. 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.