The British Essayists
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ISBN13: 9780217067041
Paperback|9780217067041
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: be found in the gardens of philosophy, however she may boast her physick of the mind, her catharticks of vice, or lenitives of passion. I shall, therefore, while I am yet but lightly touched with the symptoms of the writer's malady, endeavour to fortify myself against the infection, not without some weak hope, that my preservatives may extend their virtue to others, whose employment exposes them to the same danger: Laudis amore tunics? Sunt certa piacula, qua te Ter pure lecto potent/it recreare libello. Is fame your passion ? Wisdom's powerful charm, If thrice read over, shall its force disarm. Francis. It is the sage advice of Epictetus, that a man should accustom himself often to think of what is most shocking and terrible, that by such reflections he may be preserved from too ardent wishes for seeming1 good, and from too much dejection in real evil. There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect, compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition, are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear. I mine, et versus tecum meditare canoros. Go now, and meditate thy tuneful lays. Elphinstow. It may not be unfit for him who makes a new entrance into the lettered world, so far to suspect his own powers, as to believe that he possibly may deserve neglect; that nature may not have qualified him much to enlarge or embellish knowledge, nor sent him forth entitled by indisputable superiority to regulate the conduct of the rest of mankind; that, though the world must be granted to be yet in ignorance, he is riot destined to dispel the cloud, nor to shine out asone of the luminaries of life. For this suspicion, every catalogue of a library will furnish sufficient reason; as he will find ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217067041 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217067042 |
| Weight | 0.49 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 144 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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