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Every country must be instructed either by writers or fireachers; but as the number
of readers increases, the number of hearers is proportionably diminished, the
writer becomes more useful, and the preaching Bonse less necessary. Instead ...
Every country must be instructed either by writers or fireachers; but as the number
of readers increases, the number of hearers is proportionably diminished, the
writer becomes more useful, and the preaching Bonse less necessary. Instead ...
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A man here who should write, and honestly confess that he wrote for bread, might
as well send his manuscript to fire the baker's oven; not one creature will read
him; all must be court-bred poets, or pretend at least to be court-bred, who can ...
A man here who should write, and honestly confess that he wrote for bread, might
as well send his manuscript to fire the baker's oven; not one creature will read
him; all must be court-bred poets, or pretend at least to be court-bred, who can ...
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No systematical writer has been more happy than he in reducing Natural History
into a form, at once the shortest yet most comprehensive. The subsequent
attempts of Mr. Klein and Linnaeus. it is true, have had their admirers, but as all ...
No systematical writer has been more happy than he in reducing Natural History
into a form, at once the shortest yet most comprehensive. The subsequent
attempts of Mr. Klein and Linnaeus. it is true, have had their admirers, but as all ...
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Balzac somewhere calls vain erudition the baggage of antiquity; might we in turn
be permitted to make an apophthegm, we would call notes the baggage of a bad
writer. It certainly argues a | defect of method, or a want of perspicuity, when an ...
Balzac somewhere calls vain erudition the baggage of antiquity; might we in turn
be permitted to make an apophthegm, we would call notes the baggage of a bad
writer. It certainly argues a | defect of method, or a want of perspicuity, when an ...
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are some subjects on which a writer must decline all attempts to acquire fame,
satisfied with being obscurely useful. After such a number of Roman histories, in
almost all languages, ancient and modern, it would be but imposture to pretend ...
are some subjects on which a writer must decline all attempts to acquire fame,
satisfied with being obscurely useful. After such a number of Roman histories, in
almost all languages, ancient and modern, it would be but imposture to pretend ...
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| Titel | The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Band 4 The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver Goldsmith |
| Autor/in | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Herausgeber | Samuel Rose |
| Verlag | Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 19. Nov. 2013 |
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