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...hexameter. " Maxime, si tu vis, cupio contendere tecum." But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and...unwise if he stoops to wrangle with detractors whose worhs are certain to die. He always maintained that faiue was a shuttlecock which could be kept jp...

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...WHOLLY REFERRING TO EXGLISH MEN OF LETTERS IN EVERY AGE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. BY W CLARK RUSSELL. "The place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about but by what U written in them."— MACA u LAV. C/ LONDON : FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. éaw.J/. LONDON...

...its determines & * , •. .- , • j , i At_ a. ^ii book's place, contents. Macaulay said very truly that the place of books in the public estimation is...written about them, but by what is written in them. I offer no complaint of any remark made upon these volumes, but there have been some misapprehensions....

...things to bring away. Of course a book must stand or fall by its contents. Macaulay said very truly that the place of books in the public estimation is...written about them, but by what is written in them. I offer no complaint of any remark made upon these volumes, but there have been some misapprehensions....