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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: N 4. Monday, March 5. ? EgrtgiiMorttlem, alttque filtnti Hor. AN Author, when he firft appears in the World, is very apt to believe, has nothing to think of but his Performances. With a good Snare of this Vanity in my Heart, I made it my Bufinefs thefe three Days to liften after my own Fame; and as I have fomctimes met with Circumftances which did not difpleafe me, I have been encounter'd by others which gave me as much Mortification. It is incredible to think how empty I have in this Time obferved fome Part of the Species to be, what mere Blanks they are when they firft come abroad in the Morning, how utterly they are at a Stand till they are fet a going by fome Paragraph in a News-Paper: Such Perfons are very acceptable to a young Author, for they defire no more in any thing but to oe new to be agreeable. If I found Confolation among fuch, I was as much difquieted by the Incapacity of others. Thefe are Mortals who have a certain Curiofity without Power of Reflection, and perufed my Papers like Spectators rather than Readers. But there is lo little Pleafure in Enquiries that fo nearly concern our felves, (it being the worft way in the World to Fame, to be too anxious a- bout it) that upon the whole I refolved for the future to go on in my ordinary Way; and without too much Fear or Hope about the Bufinefs of Reputation, to be very careful of the Defign of my Aftions, but very negligent of the Confequences of them. IT is an endlefs and frivolous Purfuit to aft by any other Rule than the Care of fatisfying our own Minds in what we do. One would think a filent Man, who concerned himfelf with no one breathing, mould be very little liable to Mifreprefentations; and yet I remember I was once taken up for a Jefuit, for no other Reafon but my profound Taciturnity. It is from thi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217106740 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217106749 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 220 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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