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    The Library

    By George Crabbe

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      THE LIBRARY, by GEORGE CRABBE

      THE ARGUMENT. {1}

      Books afford Consolation to the troubled Mind by substituting a lighter kind of Distress for its own - They are productive of other Advantages - An Author’s Hope of being known in distant times - Arrangement of the Library - Size and Form of the Volumes - The ancient Folio, clasped and chained - Fashion prevalent even in this Place - The Mode of publishing in Numbers, Pamphlets &c. - Subjects of the different Classes - Divinity - Controversy - The Friends of Religion often more dangerous than her Foes - Sceptical Authors - Reason too much rejected by the former Converts; exclusively relied upon by the latter - Philosophy ascending through the Scale of Being to Moral Subjects - Books of Medicine: their Variety, Variance, and Proneness to System: the Evil of this, and the Difficulty it causes - Farewell to this Study - Law: the increasing Number of its Volumes - Supposed happy State of Man without Laws - Progress of Society - Historians: their Subjects - Dramatic Authors, Tragic and Comic - Ancient Romances

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