Salad for the Solitary and the Social (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Saunders, Frederick) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Salad for the Solitary and the Social Southey remarks that there are some persons who are willing to be pleased, and thankful for being pleased, without thinking it necessary that they should be able to parse their pleasure, like a lesson, or give a rule or reason why they arc pleased. It is the aim and design of the following pages to put the reader in this precise condition; believing, with Sydney Smith, "that all mankind are happier for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it." These desultory chapters are the fruitage of many pleasant, recreative hours spent in tho highways and by-ways of literature. Whenever a tempting thought-blossom decoyed us by its alluring beauty, the prize was captured to enrich and grace our collection. Such gleanings may by some be deemed trifles, but "Though high philosophy despise such things, They often give to weightier truths their wings; Convey a moral, or correct bad taste, Though aptly called light learning, still not waste. A spark of nature´s fire will not despise, A word sometimes makes brighter, lovelier eyes; A flash of wit disarms old care of wrath, A happy line throws beauty in our path; Though Sages say light learning wisdom stifles, There is delight in stringing useful trifles." If trifles are facts, they cease to be trivial; and, in these stirring times, when our allotted leisure is becoming so infinitesimally small, tho terse and the epigrammatic are to be preferred to the diffuse and discursive, in our reading. In grouping together the ingredients of this salad, it has been the aim of the purveyor to mix well the savory with the crisp, the spicy with the solid, and thus both tempt the appetite, and appease it. 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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