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Augusta Triumphans

Augusta Triumphans

Defoe, Daniel

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1514609355
ISBN13: 9781514609354
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 18 2015
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
A man who has the public good in view, ought not in the least to be alarmed at the tribute of ridicule which scoffers constantly pay to projecting heads. It is the business of a writer, who means well, to go directly forward, without regard to criticism, but to offer his thoughts as they occur; and if in twenty schemes he hits but on one to the purpose, he ought to be excused failing in the nineteen for the twentieth sake. It is a kind of good action to mean well, and the intention ought to palliate the failure; but the English, of all people in the world, show least mercy to schemists, for they treat them in the vilest manner; whereas other nations give them fair play for their lives, which is the reason why we are esteemed so bad at invention.

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