Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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Side x
... writer does the most , who gives his reader the most knowledge , and takes from him the least time . That short period of a short existence , which is rationally employed , is that which alone de- serves the name of life ; and that ...
... writer does the most , who gives his reader the most knowledge , and takes from him the least time . That short period of a short existence , which is rationally employed , is that which alone de- serves the name of life ; and that ...
Side xii
... write them . 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 ...
... write them . 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 ...
Side xiv
... write profoundly ; thoroughly to succeed , requires far more experience than I possess , or ever shall . I am , however , fully satisfied of the utility of a work similar to that in which I am en- gaged , and hope what little ...
... write profoundly ; thoroughly to succeed , requires far more experience than I possess , or ever shall . I am , however , fully satisfied of the utility of a work similar to that in which I am en- gaged , and hope what little ...
Side 17
... write ; but error is a scribbled one , from which we must first erase . Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth ; but error is more presumptuous , and proceeds in the same direction . Ignorance has no light ...
... write ; but error is a scribbled one , from which we must first erase . Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth ; but error is more presumptuous , and proceeds in the same direction . Ignorance has no light ...
Side 18
... writer more splendid than solid , seems to think that vice may lose half its guilt , by losing all its grossness . An idea suggested , perhaps , by the parting anathema , fulminated by Gibbon , against the fellows of Magdalen : Men ...
... writer more splendid than solid , seems to think that vice may lose half its guilt , by losing all its grossness . An idea suggested , perhaps , by the parting anathema , fulminated by Gibbon , against the fellows of Magdalen : Men ...
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