The Quarterly Review (Volume 109-110) by Books Group
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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 558 pages
Published Date: 05 Jan 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235067822
File Name: The.Quarterly.Review.(Volume.109-110).pdf
Download Link: The Quarterly Review (Volume 109-110)
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1861. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. Art. I.--1. L* Esprit des Avteurs, recueilli et raconte, par Edouard Fournier. Troisieme Edition. Paris, 1857. 2. L'Esprit dans fHistoire. Rccherches et Curiosites sur les Mots Historiques. Par Edouard Fournier. Deuxieme Edition. Paris, 1860. MANY years before 'aerated bread' was heard of, a company was formed at Pimlico for utilizing the moisture which evaporates in the process of baking, by distilling spirit from it instead of letting it go to waste. Adroitly availing himself of the popular suspicion that the company's loaves must be unduly deprived of alcohol, a ready-witted baker put up a placard inscribed 'Bread with the Gin in it, ' and customers rushed to him in crowds. We strongly suspect that any overscrupulous writer who should present history without its pleasant illusions, would find himself in the condition of the projectors who foolishly expected an enlightened public to dispense (as they thought) with an intoxicating ingredient in their bread. 'Pol, me occidistis, amici! Non sc.rv: ist.is. ait, cui sic extorta voluptas Et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error." 4 A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that if there were taken from men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?' So says Lord Bacon; and few aphorisms in prose or verse are more popular than Gray's 'Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.' The poet may have been true to his vocation when he rhymed, rather than reasoned, in this fashion; but the philosopher would have been lamentably untrue to his, had he seriously propounded a doctrine which...
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