Lacon, Or Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkWilliam Gowans, 1855 - 493 pages |
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Page iii
... become a game ; in which the Book sellers are the kings ; the Critics , the knaves ; the Public , the pack ; and the poor Author , the mere table , or thing played upon . For the last thirty years , the public mind has had such ...
... become a game ; in which the Book sellers are the kings ; the Critics , the knaves ; the Public , the pack ; and the poor Author , the mere table , or thing played upon . For the last thirty years , the public mind has had such ...
Page viii
... becomes our own by right of conquest . The pointed propriety of Pope , was to all his readers originality , and even the lawful possessors could not always recognise their own property in his hands . Few have borrowed more freely than ...
... becomes our own by right of conquest . The pointed propriety of Pope , was to all his readers originality , and even the lawful possessors could not always recognise their own property in his hands . Few have borrowed more freely than ...
Page xiii
... becomes quite impatient of information , and often finishes by attempting to instruct his instructer . * The second volume is added , making the entire work , and the only complete edition ever published in this country . It is true ...
... becomes quite impatient of information , and often finishes by attempting to instruct his instructer . * The second volume is added , making the entire work , and the only complete edition ever published in this country . It is true ...
Page xv
... becoming gradually more agreed ; perhaps we have discovered that the prize is not worth the contention . Hence there is a kind of alphabet of first principles , now established in the moral world , which is not very likely to be over ...
... becoming gradually more agreed ; perhaps we have discovered that the prize is not worth the contention . Hence there is a kind of alphabet of first principles , now established in the moral world , which is not very likely to be over ...
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... Becoming sick , and his physicians having assured him that a speedy death was inevitable , he despatched a messenger for Colton , and demanded of him an acknowledgment of a fact , which he said all parsons ' lives declared , " that ...
... Becoming sick , and his physicians having assured him that a speedy death was inevitable , he despatched a messenger for Colton , and demanded of him an acknowledgment of a fact , which he said all parsons ' lives declared , " that ...
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