Unanswerable Arguments Against the Abolition of the Slave Trade; With a Defence of the Proprietors of the British Sugar Colonies ...: Remarks on the ... African Slaves: And Means Suggested for the - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1790 edition. Excerpt: ... PREFACE, Parasitorum Parasitarumque Caterva.-:: ')'. -::- JUV; A UTHORS may be divided into two Classes, those who write to live, and those who live to write.--Of the former Class, the Number is infinitely greater than' of the latter.--To the former, Emolument is the Conditio sine qua non, nam vivitur ingenio; and hence Book-making is become a Trade or Craft, and as, Scribimus indoEli doEli que, the trivial Acquirement of certain previous Requisites for becoming an Author of any Kind, or a Knowledge of the particular A 4 Subject Subject, on which he is to treat, are not now deemed Necessary. '7. '" /'. Vf r' c An Author reasonably expects to find many Readers even more Ignorant than himself; and urged by the irresistible Consideration, that he must eat to live, otherwise he cannot live to writes, he boldly throws out his Tub to that Leviathan the Public. Formerly, indeed,whatever an Author's Merit might be, his Success was tolerably certain, for the Reason assigned above: but since those confounded periodic critical Lucubrations, the Works of the learned, succeeded l by Reviews, Magazines, and even News-Papers, without Number, have become fashionable, and are thumbed equally by by the Master and Valet--the Lady and Ladys Woman, Author-Craft is become more Difficult. But Necessity, the Parent of Ingenuity, has suggested various Expedients.--Such as borrowing from Publications of some Merit, little known, or almost forgotten; either with or without a general Acknowledgment, or flight Reference; or if particular Reference is more convenient, astonishing the Reader with the Extent of your Erudition, by the multiplicity either of Quotations, or of simple References. If the Subject has been treated of in a dead Language, of which the...
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