Some Account of the Life and Death of John Wilmot: Earl of Rochester, Who Died 25, 1630, Written by His Own Direction on His Death-Bed (Classic Reprint)
Some Account of the Life and Death of John Wilmot: Earl of Rochester, Who Died 25, 1630, Written by His Own Direction on His Death-Bed (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Some Account of the Life and Death of John Wilmot: Earl of Rochester, Who Died 25, 1630, Written by His Own Direction on His Death-Bed The celebrating the praises Of the dead is an argument so worn out by long and frequent use, and now become so nauseous by the flattery that usually attends it, that it is no wonder if funeral orations, or panegyrics, are more con sidered for the elegance of style and fineness of wit, than for the authority they carry with them as to the truth of matters of fact. And yet ...
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Excerpt from Some Account of the Life and Death of John Wilmot: Earl of Rochester, Who Died 25, 1630, Written by His Own Direction on His Death-Bed The celebrating the praises Of the dead is an argument so worn out by long and frequent use, and now become so nauseous by the flattery that usually attends it, that it is no wonder if funeral orations, or panegyrics, are more con sidered for the elegance of style and fineness of wit, than for the authority they carry with them as to the truth of matters of fact. And yet I am not hereby deterred from meddling with this kind of argument, nor from handling it with all. The plainness I can; delivering only what I myself heard and saw, without any borrowed' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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