I love anecdotes. I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. The Book of Table-talk - Page iby Charles MacFarlane - 1836Full view - About this book
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...time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative : grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big...comparison of what we might get." — Dr. Johnson, "Boswtlfs Tour." ANGLING, OR WALTON, COTTON & CO. (See also Sporting,) " Who with his Angle and his... | |
| 1878 - 716 pages
...time to write all aphoristically, except in narrative — grow weary of preparation, and connexion, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big...system, we may be long in getting them and get but few ia comparison of what we might get." * * St. Peter exhorted Christian women, converts to the faith,... | |
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