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Identifier: anecdotesofdisti01sewa_0 (find matches)
Title: Anecdotes of distinguished persons, chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries : illustrated by engravings
Year: 1798 (1790s)
Authors: Seward, William, 1747-1799 Cadell & Davies
Subjects: Anecdotes
Publisher: London : Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ADVERTISEMENT *TpHis Work originally appeared in fourfmall volumes, without much regardto chronology, or order of fituation. Bythe advice of the Bookfellers the prefentarrangement takes place, which may per-haps render the Colle&ion more acceptableto the Public. Of its Contents about one-fixth part is new to the prefent Edition*. Hiftory has been called Philofophy teaching by examples. Biography maybe faid to be Philofophy rendered dramatic,and brought home to each mans biifinefs and bofom; and, in the opinion ofa great mailer f of this fpecies of compofi-tion, is, of the various kinds of narrative * The New Articles may be had of Meflrs. Cadelland Davies, printed uniform with, and as a Supplementto, the former Editions. f Idler, N? 84. writing, iv ADVERTISEMENT. writing, that which is mod eagerly read, and moft eafily applied to the pur- pofes of life One deviation only from the generalplan of the work occurs,—the introduc-tion of a living character. In this, per-haps, the Companecdotesofdisti01sewa_0

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