Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think. From the 8th London EdLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 267 pages |
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Page i
... write any thing worth the publishing - to find honest men to publish it - and to get sensible men to read it . Literature has now become a game ; in which the Booksellers are the Kings ; the Critics , the Knaves ; the Public , the Pack ...
... write any thing worth the publishing - to find honest men to publish it - and to get sensible men to read it . Literature has now become a game ; in which the Booksellers are the Kings ; the Critics , the Knaves ; the Public , the Pack ...
Page ii
... write , because I have nothing to do , justice to myself induces me to add , that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say . Discretion has been termed the better . part of valour , and it is more certain , that dif ...
... write , because I have nothing to do , justice to myself induces me to add , that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say . Discretion has been termed the better . part of valour , and it is more certain , that dif ...
Page iii
... write . To combine profundity with perspicuity , wit with judgment , solidity with vivacity , truth with novelty ... writer be inclined to egotism , a preface is the most proper place for him to be delivered of it : for prefaces are not ...
... write . To combine profundity with perspicuity , wit with judgment , solidity with vivacity , truth with novelty ... writer be inclined to egotism , a preface is the most proper place for him to be delivered of it : for prefaces are not ...
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... an empty head , than the most superficial declamation ; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum . The following pages , such as they are , have cost me some thought to write , and they may possibly iv PREFACE .
... an empty head , than the most superficial declamation ; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum . The following pages , such as they are , have cost me some thought to write , and they may possibly iv PREFACE .
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... write , and they may possibly cost others some to read them . Like Demosthenes , who talked Greek to the waves , I have continued my task , with the hope of instructing others , with the certainty of improving myself . " Labor ipse ...
... write , and they may possibly cost others some to read them . Like Demosthenes , who talked Greek to the waves , I have continued my task , with the hope of instructing others , with the certainty of improving myself . " Labor ipse ...
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