Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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Side iii
... write any thing worth the publishing - to find honest men to publish it - and to get sensible men to read it . Lit- erature has now become a game ; in which the Book- sellers are the kings ; the Critics , the knaves ; the Public , the ...
... write any thing worth the publishing - to find honest men to publish it - and to get sensible men to read it . Lit- erature has now become a game ; in which the Book- sellers are the kings ; the Critics , the knaves ; the Public , the ...
Side iv
... write , because I have nothing to do , justice to my- self 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 nothing to do , justice to my- self 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 ...
Side v
... write , and they may possibly cost others some to read them . Like Demosthenes , who talked Greek to the waves , I ... writer, as dull to ...
... write , and they may possibly cost others some to read them . Like Demosthenes , who talked Greek to the waves , I ... writer, as dull to ...
Side vi
... 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 * Labour is itself a pleasure . - PUB . $ modern , wherever they appeared ...
... 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 * Labour is itself a pleasure . - PUB . $ modern , wherever they appeared ...
Side viii
... as that of a bal- loon , is also as useless . I have neither spare time for superfluous writing , nor spare money for superfluous * The amending flumes . - PUB . sidered a Tory by the Whigs , and a Whig viii PREFACE .
... as that of a bal- loon , is also as useless . I have neither spare time for superfluous writing , nor spare money for superfluous * The amending flumes . - PUB . sidered a Tory by the Whigs , and a Whig viii PREFACE .
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