Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think. From the 8th London EdLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 267 psl. |
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... perhaps they ought never to be resort- ed to , being as derogatory to the writer , as dull to the reader , and when not prejudicial , at least super- fluous . If a book really wants the patronage of a great name , it is a bad book , and ...
... perhaps they ought never to be resort- ed to , being as derogatory to the writer , as dull to the reader , and when not prejudicial , at least super- fluous . If a book really wants the patronage of a great name , it is a bad book , and ...
iv psl.
... perhaps a bold experiment to send a volume into the world , whose very faults , ( manifold as I fear they are , ) will cost more pains to de- tect , than sciolists would feel inclined to bestow , even if they were sure of discovering ...
... perhaps a bold experiment to send a volume into the world , whose very faults , ( manifold as I fear they are , ) will cost more pains to de- tect , than sciolists would feel inclined to bestow , even if they were sure of discovering ...
vii psl.
... perhaps accused of look- ing into every thing , but of seeing into nothing . There are two things cheap and common enough when separated , but as costly in value , as irresisti- ble in power , when combined - truth and novelty . Their ...
... perhaps accused of look- ing into every thing , but of seeing into nothing . There are two things cheap and common enough when separated , but as costly in value , as irresisti- ble in power , when combined - truth and novelty . Their ...
ix psl.
... 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 sun - beam , when ...
... 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 sun - beam , when ...
16 psl.
... perhaps , by the parting anathema , fulmi- nated by Gibbon against the fellows of Magdalen ; men , he said , " in whom were united all the malevolence of monks , without their erudition ; and all the sensuality of libertines , without ...
... perhaps , by the parting anathema , fulmi- nated by Gibbon against the fellows of Magdalen ; men , he said , " in whom were united all the malevolence of monks , without their erudition ; and all the sensuality of libertines , without ...
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