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Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1849 edition. Auszug: ...--+ We should endeavour to please persons of humane and tender dispositions.--Thatf on " the two one-eyed persons" is good for nothing; it affords them no consolation, and is only a vain conceit of the author. Whatever exhibits only an author's skill is worthless. " Ambitiosa recidet ornamental % Our own inquiries, and those of several learned persons, have not been successful in conjecturing who is meant by Salomon de Tultie. It is most likely that Madame Perier, in whose hand-writing this passage is found in the MS., must have made a mistake in the name. t The Epigram. X Horace; " Art of Poetry." XXIII. All the false beauties that we censure in Cicero find numerous admirers. XXIV. + The same words, differently arranged, will convey a different meaning; and meanings differently arranged, produce different results. XXV. Let no one say, I have said nothing new: the arrangement of the materials is new. When two persons are playing at tennis, they use the same ball; but one strikes it better than the other. In the same way, I should wish always to be told that I make use of common words; and, if the same thoughts have not formed altogether another subject by a different arrangement, the same words will have formed other thoughts by their different disposition. XXVI. Some authors, speaking of their works, say " my book, my commentary, my history," &c. They are like ill-bred persons who have just got a house of their own, and are always talking of " my house." They would do better to say " our book, our commentary, our history," &c.; for there is usually more that belongs to others in them than to themselves. XXVII. Languages are a species of cipher, in which it is not letters that are changed...



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  • ISBN-13: 9781235603921
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 104
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 123560392X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 258 gr

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