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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: And, for thisreafon, I don't think that one fhould be too fevere againft the poot devils neither. They ought rather to become the object of our pity than refent- mrM(, who, like hangmen, are obliged to execute for bread. And it fhould therefore be a confiderable advantage to a work, to have received their cenfure?for an author may fet what price he pleafes on a book that has been condemned to be burnt by the hands of the common hangman. CHAP. III. THE UNCLED THINK I promifed in my firft chapter, to give you my authority in literature. Thus it was? I happened to have an uncle once, who was a rr.hiiit.cr of the gofpel, but his only ftudy was politics. He had a laudable ambition to rife in life. Religion is undoubtedly anecefiary qualification for that pur- poEe in the next world?but ir not fuffi- cient to help us forward in this. He took care, therefore, juft to get the thirty-nine articles by beait, to enable him to ftand an examination of faith on the day of judgment?not attending to the good old faying, Live 'and learn, die and forget all: but his maxims were, not to go, whileyoujiay?to live whilft you live; for at the hour of death, Jufficient to that day ipill be the evil thereof, In profecution then of his fcheme of life, he wrote and publifhed fever, il party papers, during the reign of Sir Robert Wai- pole, in favour of his minifiry?but Mammon left him in the lurch. They produced no effect toward his advancement.?They were poorly written.?Parfons generally write ill, even upon their own fubjects. He might better have employed himfelf, in faying his prayers?for, in this fervice, whatever is well meant, is well received, though evet fo ill performed: but, in the other cafe, whatever is well executed only, is well accepted of, however ill intended.?T...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217089234 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217089232 |
| Weight | 0.32 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 90 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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