Rhymes of Contrast on Wisdom and Folly: A Comparison Between Observant and Reflective Age, Derisively Called Fogie, and a Senseless and Unthinking American Go-Ahead (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

James Rush

9780656283019: Rhymes of Contrast on Wisdom and Folly: A Comparison Between Observant and Reflective Age, Derisively Called Fogie, and a Senseless and Unthinking American Go-Ahead (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Rhymes of Contrast on Wisdom and Folly: A Comparison Between Observant and Reflective Age, Derisively Called Fogie, and a Senseless and Unthinking American Go-Ahead

Spectator seeing its misrepresentation under an ignorance of its real form and action: truth seeming then contorted and ridiculous, because it is so to the habit of their imperfect and limited perceptions.

I make these remarks previously to stating the purpose Of the following rhymes; and if it is not regarded, we must con sider the Reader one Of those Precipitators, whether young or Old, who run so fast, and look so exclusively after their own object, as to be unable to notice what is deliberate and practical.

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