Excerpt from The Spectator, 1711, Vol. 2
Mankind. Knowledge of Books in reclule'men, is lileethat fort of Lan thorn' which hides him who carries it, and ferves only to pals through fecret and gloomy Paths of his own; but in the Poffeilion of a Man of Bufinefs, it is as a Torchin the Hand of one who is willing and able to thew thofe, who are bewildered, the Way which leads to their Profperity and Welfare. A generous-concern for your Country, and a Pallion for every thing which is truly Great and Noble, are what aé'cuate all Your Life and Aétions; and lhope You will forgive me thati have an Ambition this Book may be placed in the Library of (0 good a Judge of what is valuable, in that Library where the Choice is fuch, that it will nor be a Difparagement to be the.
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