...book with pleasure, until he knew whether the writer of it was a black or a fair man, of a mild or a choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like instructive and interesting nature. The existence of this curiosity in the mind of the public is proved,...

...instructive, and certainly as moral, as any of those above-mentioned. " I have observed," says Addison, " that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till...disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to 9. right understanding of the .author." This opinion of our...

...HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses 1 shook with pleasure, till he knows whether the niter etherin a very beautiful order. At the end of the folios (which were finely bound and gilt) were gre puticulan of the like nature, that conduce mjrmach to the right understanding of an authar. Topttify...

...instructive. What Addison says in jest, and with his usual humour, is true in fact : " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor." What passages in Horace are more...

...was a black or a fair man ; of a mild or cholerick disposition ; married or a bachelor ; with many other particulars of the like nature, which conduce...very much to the right understanding of an author : and, since he made the observation, it has been so often repeated by those who have attempted to...

...reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, until he knows whether the writer be a fair or a black man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author." Regarding these particulars,...

...that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor." What passages in Horace are more agreeable than when he tells us he was fat and sleek," preecanum,...

...that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor." What passages in Horace are more agreeable than when he tells us he was fat and sleek, "praecanum,...

...(without raising expectation high) Surprises us with dazzling miracles. ROSCOMMON. A HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till...bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is...

...without raising expectation high, Surprises us with dazzling miracles. ROSCOMMOK. I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till...bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is...