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On Reading.
consequence it is of to the sum of human felicity , not to neglect minute attentions to make the most of life as it passes . Reading may in every sense be called a cheap amusement . A tafte for booh , indeed , may be made expensive eriough ; but thai is a taste for editions , bindings , paper , arid type . If you are satisfied with getting at the sense of an author in some commodious a crown at a
way , stall will supply your wants as well as a guinea at a shop . Learn , too ,-to distinguish between books to be pen / fed , and books to be poffiffed ; Of the former you may find an ample store in every subscription library , the proper use of which to a scholar is to furnish his mind without load- ' ing his shelves ; No apparatus , no appointment of time and p lace , is necessary for the enjoyment of reading . From the midst of bustle and
business you may ,, in an instant , by the magic of a book , plunge into scenes of remote ages and countries , and disengage yourself from present care and fatigue . " Sweet pliability of man ' s spirit , ( cries Sterne , on relating an occurrence of this kind in his Sentimental Jour- > ney ) that can at once , surrender itself to illusions , which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments !"
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To' the READERS of the FRBEMAJONS '' MAGAZINE , and in particular to a'Cori respondent signing J .
[ See Vol . I .- Page 599 . ]
SIRS A'ND' BROTHER .,-THE charge by Edward Collis [ Mag . Vol .- L . No . VI , p . 452 ] was not only communicated to this Magazine without his knowledge , bat Ae putting his name to the title was also what he never meant . The mistake oriinated as follows : ¦ ¦ .
g Tiie charge was only read in a meeting of the'Roman Eagle Lodge ; and as the book from which he read it was very scarce ( even not to be had in Scotland ) , he was prevailed upon to print-a few copies of it fertile information of the brethren ; but without anv knowledge or desian
nfhis name being put in the tide , which was done by a mistake of the Printer in a few of- the first copies ; one of which having fallen in tc * my hands , 1 not knowing that it had been written by any other person , ( . till I made enquiry on account of brother J . ' s representation ) , andthinking it would be very acceptable to the Readers of this Magazine , sent it to the Publisher with some other articles of ownnot
, my , haying _ the least design to impofe upon any person whatever . . Hoping this true and faithful representation of the matter will satisfy , brother j . to whom I confess myself much indebted- for the notice he has taken , I remain his much obliged brother , Edinburgh , FebAiA , 5794 , YINDEX , Fr , Aq , Rom .
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On Reading.
consequence it is of to the sum of human felicity , not to neglect minute attentions to make the most of life as it passes . Reading may in every sense be called a cheap amusement . A tafte for booh , indeed , may be made expensive eriough ; but thai is a taste for editions , bindings , paper , arid type . If you are satisfied with getting at the sense of an author in some commodious a crown at a
way , stall will supply your wants as well as a guinea at a shop . Learn , too ,-to distinguish between books to be pen / fed , and books to be poffiffed ; Of the former you may find an ample store in every subscription library , the proper use of which to a scholar is to furnish his mind without load- ' ing his shelves ; No apparatus , no appointment of time and p lace , is necessary for the enjoyment of reading . From the midst of bustle and
business you may ,, in an instant , by the magic of a book , plunge into scenes of remote ages and countries , and disengage yourself from present care and fatigue . " Sweet pliability of man ' s spirit , ( cries Sterne , on relating an occurrence of this kind in his Sentimental Jour- > ney ) that can at once , surrender itself to illusions , which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments !"
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To' the READERS of the FRBEMAJONS '' MAGAZINE , and in particular to a'Cori respondent signing J .
[ See Vol . I .- Page 599 . ]
SIRS A'ND' BROTHER .,-THE charge by Edward Collis [ Mag . Vol .- L . No . VI , p . 452 ] was not only communicated to this Magazine without his knowledge , bat Ae putting his name to the title was also what he never meant . The mistake oriinated as follows : ¦ ¦ .
g Tiie charge was only read in a meeting of the'Roman Eagle Lodge ; and as the book from which he read it was very scarce ( even not to be had in Scotland ) , he was prevailed upon to print-a few copies of it fertile information of the brethren ; but without anv knowledge or desian
nfhis name being put in the tide , which was done by a mistake of the Printer in a few of- the first copies ; one of which having fallen in tc * my hands , 1 not knowing that it had been written by any other person , ( . till I made enquiry on account of brother J . ' s representation ) , andthinking it would be very acceptable to the Readers of this Magazine , sent it to the Publisher with some other articles of ownnot
, my , haying _ the least design to impofe upon any person whatever . . Hoping this true and faithful representation of the matter will satisfy , brother j . to whom I confess myself much indebted- for the notice he has taken , I remain his much obliged brother , Edinburgh , FebAiA , 5794 , YINDEX , Fr , Aq , Rom .