Essays Upon the Five Senses, Revived by a New Supplement; With a Pithy One Upon Detraction
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Excerpt from Essays Upon the Five Senses, Revived by a New Supplement; With a Pithy One Upon Detraction: Continued With Sundry Christian Resolves, and Divine Contemplations A leading principle in selecting the pieces for Archaica has been to fix on such, as were in their own time popular, and have been for ages since buried in oblivion. It may be doubted if in past ages popularity depended on causes so extraneous to merit, or at least to the real taste of the multitude, as at present. The modern system of Reviews, together with all the intrigues of literature which it facilitates, has usurped that judgment which the people formerly exercised more independently of critical censors. Readers of old perused a book for amusement or instruction; now´ they take it up for the purpose of shewing their wit in finding fault; unless in the case of some favourite of the day, who is privileged with temporary excellence; and whom the same fashion invests with superhuman power. The writings which have been generally received with pleasure, unprejudiced by strong artifices, or violently adventitious causes, must furnish the most lively proofs of the manners and intellectual character which cherished them. The philosopher therefore, who loves to speculate upon the varieties of the human character in different stages of society, will look with profound curiosity to these things, as materials of the opinions that are to enlighten his mind, when time has rendered them valuable by the mere mould with which it has covered them. About the Publisher 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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