This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...the most simple; and (for a reason still to be mentioned) most likely to be the true one. It may seem scarcely credible, but it is true, that the Essay had been in print rather more than ten years before Chatterton was born. As it stands in Dodsley's Annual Register, it is (with some verbal alterations, the insertion ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...the most simple; and (for a reason still to be mentioned) most likely to be the true one. It may seem scarcely credible, but it is true, that the Essay had been in print rather more than ten years before Chatterton was born. As it stands in Dodsley's Annual Register, it is (with some verbal alterations, the insertion of one short paragraph, and the omission of another) a Number of a periodical paper entitled Common Sense, published Feby. 6th 1742 and reprinted in the Gentleman's Magazine for that month (p. 78.) under the Title "Caligula's Horse a good Minister." The verbal alterations are not worth notice; but the insertion, and the omission deserve attention. In Dodsley the first paragraph stands thus;--""When I read over our own history, as well as that of other nations, I feel a kind of reverence rise in my soul for the memories of several emperors, Kings, princes, and sovereign dukes, for the wisdom as well as excellent taste, which they have shewn in the judicious choice of such persons as they thought worthy to be placed at the helm of government." In the Gentleman's Magazine it stands, "In reading history I always feel a kind of reverence rise in my soul for the memory of sovereigns who have shewn their wisdom, as well as excellent taste, in the judicious choice of ministers." This is perhaps the strongest specimen of mere verbal alteration; the object being apparently only to extend the paragraph to nearly twice its length. The second paragraph is the insertion; and the grammar looks very much as if it was of Chatterton's making;--"When one considers that the prince has it in his power to chuse out of millions of his subjects, and among whom there are no doubt both wise men and fools, when we see him hit on on...
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