Excerpt from The Universal Letter-Writer, or New Art of Polite Correspondence: Containing a Course of Interesting Original Letters of the Most Important, Instructive and Entertaining Subjects, Which May Serve as Copies for Inditing Letters on the Various Occurrences in Life; To Which Is Added the Complete Petitioner Some of the most ancient compositions were written in this manner, and the light of the gospel was delivered by the holy apostles in. 'the epistolary way. 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.