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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1771. Excerpt: ... My fair readers should consider, that, tbo' fome little affectations may be inoffensive, nay perhaps, in fome sew hands, may even please, yet wheie they tend, as in this case to six a ieal impersection, they become dangerous. Fashions are fluctuating; and if flat shoulden should again come into vogue, fome of them may be fairly taken in. The celestial Goddess may, in her monthly progress, repair her gibbous form, but our mortal ones wiil insallibly carry theirs to the grave. The intellect in ruins is a painsul sight, and next to it is the human form debased. The blemishes of nature, and the effects of accident, demand our pity; the consequences of inattention may be viewed with indulgence; but a studied depravation of shape, arising from affectation, will generally, I sear, excite less iavouiable sentiments. The effect cannot fail to. difgust, nor the cause te be despised. No. II. Monday, April 30, 1770. Tentanda 'via est qua me quoque pofftm 7oilere humo V IRC. To Mr. Fltn, SIR, JSc. AM by prosession a critic, and have had l8 l the honour of an intimacy with the great est wits of both sexes in the kingdom. On coming to this city, I was a good deal surpnsed at the neglect with which force of cur great modern modern writers have been treated, and the little taste which generally prevails here for those peculiar beauties of stile and sentiment, for which those extraor- / dinary geniuses are in other places fo much celebrated. I theresore hope my time will not be misemployed, if I lay myself out to improve the public, through the channel of your paper, by pointing out the specisic excellences of our most eminent authors, and shewing clearly their superiority to those antients, for whom, from the prejudice of education, too many still retain a blind implicit...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235600210
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235600211
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 150 gr

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