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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: PREFACE. My friend, Robert Carlton, has been several times solicited to fulfill a promise given in his other work, viz., to write the Old Purchase. In reply, however, he has always said in substance, that, not having got such a bargain as he had expected, he is resolved on making no more Purchases: that, beside, the Old World is all written up, since in there every person did his own writing, and manufactured his own poetry, co authors being as plenty as readers; hence, that all sorts OO of folks were seeking to sell literary wares; ready, indeed, to exchange commodities, giving usually boot, and not rarely bestowing their surplus of wit, science, .- and incidents, gratuitously. Like the opposition barber that shaved for three pence and gave a drink of beer for nothing, many often lecture at an expense (!) chapter{Section 4to themselves, provided you will merely buy their books and charts ! Nay, every elevation, hill or mountain, he contends further, has been ascended, and from the summit every scene of lake or land described, poetized, painted! Every meadow has been measured, every water befished; every woman, in or out of pantalettes and tournures, besonneted; every thing galvanized, phrenologized, mesmerized: in short, that every body has seen all places, is acquainted with every body else, and knows, in all matters, more than ever was known before, or ever can be known again ! The reader will readily perceive a good deal of common-place in such a reply; and, perhaps, a little peevishness; still my friend insists that he will not do the Old Purchase, and so the world must be, this time, the losers. I am happy, however, in having gained his consent to the publication of certain letters written, for some time past, in answer to letters of my own, design...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217795685
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 82
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217795684
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 163 gr


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