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Article A DISSERTATION ON THE MODERN ART OF SCRIBBLING. ← Page 4 of 4 Article EXTRAORDINARY EPITAPH Page 1 of 1
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A Dissertation On The Modern Art Of Scribbling.
run over into the subsequent page ; where a pretty wooden device of a flower-pot supported by two chubby cherubims , or a little pert squirrel perched up with a bushy expanse of tail , may be stuck into tiie centre of the vacant blank , and so prevent the unthrifty profusion of your matter . You will always take particular care to split the connection of j'our piece into innumerable divisions and paragraphs , of
which will extend it to very near the length a moderate volume extraordinary . Your copy being thus managed , you must now call in the assistance of your printer , to nurse it still farther : he will therefore furnish you with a large type , thai it may not strain , the eyes of the reader : lie will also take care that the margin be very wide at the top ,
bottom , and sides : besides this , he will put spacious distances between every line , and leave what they call a white line between every paragraph . Many other artifices may be used , to bilk the purchaser , and swell the profits of . the sale . When your piece is thus spun out into several more volumes than is necessaryyou will puff it off in the advertising . and to satisf
, , y the impatience of the public , you may tell them that I don't know how many presses are at work to get . it printed off . If afterwards your sale should not prove brisk enough ,, and you have many left on your hands , you may advertise a second , third , fourth , fifth ; and sixth edition repeatedly , though you have not got off near the number of your first impression ' . —But hold , —1 must not reveal the mysteries
of the trade : —I have already gone too far ' : —Some parts of this Essay I was obliged to strike out , as the printer absolutely refused , for some private reasons , to set them ;—and I know not how . far I may hereafter be forced to a dependence on those generous , those humane , those honourable , those honest gentiemen , the booksellers . - ; - - '¦ ' ¦"' ; Q .
Extraordinary Epitaph
EXTRAORDINARY EPITAPH
¦ ¦ IN ST . MARTIN S CHURCH , LEICESTER . HERE lyeth the , bodie of John Heyrich , who departed tl ^ s life April 3 d , 1589 , being about the age of 76 years . He did marje Mary the daughter of John Bond , Esq . of Wardend , in the countie
of Warwick . He lived with the sayde Mary in one house 52 yeeres , and in all that tyme never buryed he manne , womanne , nor chylde , although there were sometymes twentie in the housholde . He had issue bye the sayd Mary 5 sonnes and seven daughters . The sayde John was Maior of the towne 1559 , and againe anno 1572 . The sayde Mary lived to ninerie seven yeeres , and departed on the Sth of December 1611 . She dyd see before her departure , of" her chyldreiv and chyldren ' s chyldreir , to the number of 142 ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Dissertation On The Modern Art Of Scribbling.
run over into the subsequent page ; where a pretty wooden device of a flower-pot supported by two chubby cherubims , or a little pert squirrel perched up with a bushy expanse of tail , may be stuck into tiie centre of the vacant blank , and so prevent the unthrifty profusion of your matter . You will always take particular care to split the connection of j'our piece into innumerable divisions and paragraphs , of
which will extend it to very near the length a moderate volume extraordinary . Your copy being thus managed , you must now call in the assistance of your printer , to nurse it still farther : he will therefore furnish you with a large type , thai it may not strain , the eyes of the reader : lie will also take care that the margin be very wide at the top ,
bottom , and sides : besides this , he will put spacious distances between every line , and leave what they call a white line between every paragraph . Many other artifices may be used , to bilk the purchaser , and swell the profits of . the sale . When your piece is thus spun out into several more volumes than is necessaryyou will puff it off in the advertising . and to satisf
, , y the impatience of the public , you may tell them that I don't know how many presses are at work to get . it printed off . If afterwards your sale should not prove brisk enough ,, and you have many left on your hands , you may advertise a second , third , fourth , fifth ; and sixth edition repeatedly , though you have not got off near the number of your first impression ' . —But hold , —1 must not reveal the mysteries
of the trade : —I have already gone too far ' : —Some parts of this Essay I was obliged to strike out , as the printer absolutely refused , for some private reasons , to set them ;—and I know not how . far I may hereafter be forced to a dependence on those generous , those humane , those honourable , those honest gentiemen , the booksellers . - ; - - '¦ ' ¦"' ; Q .
Extraordinary Epitaph
EXTRAORDINARY EPITAPH
¦ ¦ IN ST . MARTIN S CHURCH , LEICESTER . HERE lyeth the , bodie of John Heyrich , who departed tl ^ s life April 3 d , 1589 , being about the age of 76 years . He did marje Mary the daughter of John Bond , Esq . of Wardend , in the countie
of Warwick . He lived with the sayde Mary in one house 52 yeeres , and in all that tyme never buryed he manne , womanne , nor chylde , although there were sometymes twentie in the housholde . He had issue bye the sayd Mary 5 sonnes and seven daughters . The sayde John was Maior of the towne 1559 , and againe anno 1572 . The sayde Mary lived to ninerie seven yeeres , and departed on the Sth of December 1611 . She dyd see before her departure , of" her chyldreiv and chyldren ' s chyldreir , to the number of 142 ,