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An Author's Mind; The Book of Title-Pages
An Author's Mind The Book of TitlePages Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1841 Original Publisher: R. Bentley Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sele... more »ct from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A crank boat needs ballast; and of happy fortune is it for a disposition towards natural levity, when educational gravity has helped to steady it. Upon the vivacious, let the reflective supervene : to the gay, suffer in its season the addition of the serious. Amongst other wholesome topics of meditation, -- for wholesome it is to the healthy spirit, although of some little danger to the presumptuous and inflated, -- the study of the sure word of Prophecy has more than once excited the writing propensity of your Author's mind. On most matters it has been my fate, rather from habits of incurable reverie than from any want of opportunities, to think more than to read ; and therefore it is, with very due diffidence, that, as far as others and their judgements are concerned, I can ever hope to claim originality or novelty. To my own conscience, however, these things are reversed ; for contemplation has produced that as new to my own mind, which may be old to others deeper read, and hasthought those ideas original, which are only so to its own fancy. Very little, then, must such as I reasonably hope to add on Prophetical Interpretation ; the Universal Wisdom of two millenaries cannot be expected to gain anything from the passing thought of a hodiernal unit: if any fancies in my brain are really new and hitherto unbroached upon the subject, it can scarcely be doubted but that they are false; so very little reliance do principles of Catholicity allow to be placed upon ' private interpretations.'' With thus much of apology to those alike who will find, and those who will not find...« less