Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, Volume 1Sherman, 1824 |
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Page iii
... 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 iv
... write , because I have no- thing 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 diffidence ...
... write , because I have no- thing 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 diffidence ...
Page v
... writer be inclined to egotism , a preface is the most proper place for him to be delivered of it ; for prefaces are not always read , and dedi- cations seldom ; books , says my lord Bacon , should have no patrons but truth and reason ...
... writer be inclined to egotism , a preface is the most proper place for him to be delivered of it ; for prefaces are not always read , and dedi- cations seldom ; books , says my lord Bacon , should have no patrons but truth and reason ...
Page vi
... 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 in- structing 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 in- structing others , with the certainty of improving myself . " Labor ipse ...
Page viii
... writing , but oceans more in defending it ; for he that writes in a bad style , is sure to retort in a worse . I have availed myself of examples both ancient and modern , wherever they appeared likely to illustrate or strengthen my ...
... writing , but oceans more in defending it ; for he that writes in a bad style , is sure to retort in a worse . I have availed myself of examples both ancient and modern , wherever they appeared likely to illustrate or strengthen my ...
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