For a novel addressed by a man to men and women of full age; which attempts to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision... and disaster, that may press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity; to tell, without a mincing of words, of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit; and to point the tragedy of unfulfilled aims, I am not aware that there is anything in the handling to which exception can be taken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.... Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here!... Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones, Hence removed from beds of ease, Dainty fare, and what might please,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I press not to the quire, nor dare I greet The holy place with my unhallowed feet;... My unwashed Muse pollutes not things divine, Nor mingles her profaner notes with thine; Here humbly at the porch she listening stays, And with glad ears sucks in thy sacred lays.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Flee from the press and dwell with soothfastness; Suffice unto thy good though it be small,... For hoard hath hate and climbing ticklishness, Press hath envy and weal blent overall;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would have these good people to recollect, that the laws of this country hold out to foreigners an offer of all that liberty of ...the press which Americans enjoy, and that, if this liberty be abridged, by whatever means it may be done, the laws and the constitution, and all together, is a mere cheat; a snare to catch the credulous and enthusiastic of every other nation; a downright imposition on the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty,... than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »