_RIGHTS OF MAN:_ BEING AN ANSWER TO MR. BURKE'S ATTACK ON THE _FRENCH REVOLUTION._
SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO CONGRESS IN THE AMERICAN WAR, AND AUTHOR OF THE WORK INTITLED _COMMON SENSE_.
L O N D O N: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. MDCCXCI.
Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of the dramatists, Demosthenes is not more sensibly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. MACAULAY
AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES AND NUMEROUS WORKS, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER;
A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE AND CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY EMINENT PERSONS;
VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION, NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.
THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT-BRITAIN, FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY, DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED.
----_Quò fit ut_ OMNIS _Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella_ VITA SENIS.---- HORAT.
_L O N D O N:_ PRINTED BY HENRY BALDWIN, FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY. M DCC XCI.
Reduced Leaf in original, 8.18 × 10.68 inches.
He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth; Smiles broke from us and we had ease, The hills were round us, and the breeze Went o'er the sun-lit fields again; Our foreheads felt the wind and rain. Our youth return'd; for there was shed On spirits that had long been dead, Spirits dried up and closely furl'd, The freshness of the early world. ARNOLD
LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. & A. ARCH, GRACECHURCH-STREET. 1798.
The history was hailed with delight as the most witty and original production from any American pen. The first foreign critic was Scott, who read it aloud in his family till their sides were sore with laughing. WARNER
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE END OF THE DUTCH DYNASTY.
Among many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of WALTER THE DOUBTER, the Disastrous Projects of WILLIAM THE TESTY, and the Chivalric Achievments of PETER THE HEADSTRONG, the three Dutch Governors of NEW AMSTERDAM; being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been, or ever will be Published.
=De waarheid die in duister lag, Die komt met klaarheid aan den dag.=
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