 But such is the present state of our literature, that the ancient sage, who thought a great book a great evil, would now think the multitude of books a multitude of evils. He would consider a bulky writer who engrossed a year, and a swarm of pamphleteers...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Idler - Page 334by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...bulky writer who engrossed a year, and a swarm of pamphleteers who stole each an hour, as equal wasters of human life, and would make no other difference between them than between a beast of prey and a flight of locusts. No. 88. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1759 When the philosophers of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...bulky writer who engrossed a year, and a swarm of pamphleteers who stole each an hour, as equal wasters of human life, and would make no other difference between them than between a beast of prey and a flight of locusts. No. 88. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1759 When the philosophers of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...bulky writer who engrossed a year, and a swarm of pamphleteers who stole each an hour, as equal wasters of human life, and would make no other difference between them than between a beast of prey and a flight of locusts. No. 88. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1759 When the philosophers of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 pages
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