 If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.  The Monthly Magazine - Page 1801798Full view - About this book
 | Michael Prince - 1996 - 316 pages
...proper for imitation ... If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it would be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror that shows all that presents itself... | |
 | René Wellek - 1978 - 768 pages
...Rambler Nr. 4. Works, 2, 23—4: »If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account: or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself... | |
 | 1927 - 588 pages
...to regulate their own practices. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account, or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself... | |
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