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Like Demosthenes , who talked Greek to the waves , I have continued my task , with the hope of instructing others , with the certainty of improving myself . " Labor ipse voluptas . " It is much safer to think what we say , than to say ...
Like Demosthenes , who talked Greek to the waves , I have continued my task , with the hope of instructing others , with the certainty of improving myself . " Labor ipse voluptas . " It is much safer to think what we say , than to say ...
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Style is indeed the valet of genius , and an able one too ; but as the true gentleman will appear , even in rags , so true genius will shine , even through the coarsest style . But above all , I do most earnestly hope , PREFACE . ix.
Style is indeed the valet of genius , and an able one too ; but as the true gentleman will appear , even in rags , so true genius will shine , even through the coarsest style . But above all , I do most earnestly hope , PREFACE . ix.
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But above all , I do most earnestly hope , that none will accuse me of usurping , on this occasion , the chair of the moralist , or of presuming to deliver any thing here advanced , as oracular , magisterial , dictatorial , or “ ex ...
But above all , I do most earnestly hope , that none will accuse me of usurping , on this occasion , the chair of the moralist , or of presuming to deliver any thing here advanced , as oracular , magisterial , dictatorial , or “ ex ...
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I have however , neither the hope nor the fear , that my opinions on politics , or any other subject , will attract much attention . The approbation of a few discerning friends , is all the reward I wish for my labours ; and the four ...
I have however , neither the hope nor the fear , that my opinions on politics , or any other subject , will attract much attention . The approbation of a few discerning friends , is all the reward I wish for my labours ; and the four ...
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... a Chatterton , a Savage , a Burns , or a Byron , others , finding it less difficult to be eccentric , than to be brilliant , have therefore adopted the one , in the hope that the world would give them credit for the other .
... a Chatterton , a Savage , a Burns , or a Byron , others , finding it less difficult to be eccentric , than to be brilliant , have therefore adopted the one , in the hope that the world would give them credit for the other .
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| Title | Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think |
| Author | Charles Caleb Colton |
| Publisher | Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1837 |
| Length | 485 pages |
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