An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Writers of dull books, however, if patronised at all, are rewarded beyond their deserts. We are under no obliga tion to sympathize with those authors who have passed their nights without sleep, in order to procure it for their readers. The cumbrous labours of such men prove una vailing, from an apparently trifling difference of opinion be tween them and the world which they attempt to enlighten. With an honest zeal they maintain, that their productions are brilliant, but the world perversely denounces them as execrable: and thus, merely by being outvoted, their pon derons tomes soon lumber down into the tomb of forgetful ness. As in raising grain, the quantity of sound wheat is diminished by a rank growth of the straw, so, in the pro. Duction of books, the amount of solid information they con tain, seems to decrease in proportion to the fecundity of the crop.

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