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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: .acknowledged my (elf incapable. While 1 bufie my felfas a Stranger upon Earth, and can pretend to no o-, ther than being a Looker-on, You arc conlpicuous in the Bufie and Polite World, both in the World of Men and that of Letters: While I am filent and unobferv'd in publick Meetings, You are admired by all that approach You as the Life and Genius of the Converfation. What an happy Conjunction of different Talents meets in him whofe whole Difcoarfe ts at once animated by ths Strength and Force of Rcafbn, and adorned with all the Graces and Embcllifli- ments of Wit? When Learning irradiates common Life, it is then in irs higheft U(e and Perfection; and it is to fucfr as Your Lordfhip, that the Sciences owe the Efteem which they Jiave with the adive Part of Mankind. chapter{{Section 4Mankind. Knowledge of Books ir reclufe Men, is like that fort of Laiv thorn which hides him who carries it, and ferves only to pafs through fccfet and gloomy Paths of his own y but in the Poflfeffion of a Man of Bufinefi, it is a Torch in the Hand of one who is willing and able to Jhew thole, who are bewildered, the Way which leads to their Profperity and Welfare. A generous Concern for your Country, and a Pafliort for every thing which is truly Great and Noble, are what actuate all Your Life and Actions; and I hope You will forgive me that I have an Ambition this Book may be placed in the Library of fb good a Judge of what is valuable, in that Library where the Choice is filch, that it will not be a Diiparagement to be the meaneft Author in it. Forgive me, any Lord, for taking this Qceafion of telling all the World ho/w ardently I Love and Honour You, - and that I am, with the utmoft Gratitude for all Your Favours, My LOJ?Z, Tour mm moft mofl Obedient, and waft Humkk Strvant, ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217106764 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217106765 |
| Weight | 0.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $19.75 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 268 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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