Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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Side iv
... have no patrons but truth and reason . Even the at- tractive prose of Dryden , could not dignify dedica- tions ; and perhaps they ought never to be resorted to , being as derogatory to the writer , as dull to iv PREFACE .
... have no patrons but truth and reason . Even the at- tractive prose of Dryden , could not dignify dedica- tions ; and perhaps they ought never to be resorted to , being as derogatory to the writer , as dull to iv PREFACE .
Side v
... perhaps a bold experiment to send a vol- ume into the world , whose very faults , ( manifold as I fear they are , ) will cost more pains to detect , than sciolists would feel inclined to bestow , even if they were sure of discovering ...
... perhaps a bold experiment to send a vol- ume into the world , whose very faults , ( manifold as I fear they are , ) will cost more pains to detect , than sciolists would feel inclined to bestow , even if they were sure of discovering ...
Side vii
... perhaps be accused of looking into every thing , but of seeing into nothing . There are two things , cheap and common enough when separated , but as costly in value , as irresistible in power , when combined - truth and novelty . Their ...
... perhaps be accused of looking into every thing , but of seeing into nothing . There are two things , cheap and common enough when separated , but as costly in value , as irresistible in power , when combined - truth and novelty . Their ...
Side xii
... Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing , which is original , but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so : and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam , when it ...
... Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing , which is original , but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so : and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam , when it ...
Side xiii
... perhaps on any other theme , than on that which I have adopt- ed ; for on this subject all men are critics , although very few are connoisseurs ; the man of the world is indignant at being supposed to stand in need of in- formation ...
... perhaps on any other theme , than on that which I have adopt- ed ; for on this subject all men are critics , although very few are connoisseurs ; the man of the world is indignant at being supposed to stand in need of in- formation ...
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