Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political (Classic Reprint)1kg Limited, 2 февр. 2018 г. - Всего страниц: 220 Excerpt from Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political World, half so stately and daintil'y as candle lights. Truth may perha 3 come to the price of a pearl, that showeth est by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or car buncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth eve1 add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one, would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy dzemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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