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. 1903 Excerpt: ...out right and left with charming vigour, yet with sorrow at the utter incapacity of his countrymen to understand the sarcastic treatment of a subject. Laying down the principle that no right-minded man could doubt that the toleration of piracy, which was nothing but trade in stolen goods, and still more its ...
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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. 1903 Excerpt: ...out right and left with charming vigour, yet with sorrow at the utter incapacity of his countrymen to understand the sarcastic treatment of a subject. Laying down the principle that no right-minded man could doubt that the toleration of piracy, which was nothing but trade in stolen goods, and still more its encouragement and support under one pretence or another, redounded little to the credit of princes and public authorities, being incompatible with the protection and respect which men of learning and good authors had a right to expect from them, --he declared that he could only ascribe the indecision and indifference of the public, in face of this everincreasing abuse, to the coldness of the majority towards everything which did not touch them directly or personally; to a mean regard for the cheapness of stolen goods; and generally to the inconsistency of mankind. He had himself assumed the guise of a pirate in the Mercury, in order--under the pretence of championing the cause of the freebooters and their Augustuses and Maecenases, --to expose the absurdity of the grounds on which piracy was justified, and to tell some truths to authors and publishers, as well as to the "good public and the illustrious protectors of our notorious book-thieves." But he had failed. His irony had been misunderstood. "As this is not the first time that I have dealt in irony, I thought I had taken care enough that readers, qui nasum habent, should discover the sophisms at once; and I am convinced that, now the riddle is out, there cannot be a single person who would not detect irony and persiflage in every line. Perhaps I was wrong in not warning the reader in a note--a precaution which I would fain recommend to all authors 1787-88. PIRATE AUDACITY. 229 who in fu...
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