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We next turn over a new leaf, and open upon a pompous dedication, which answers many laudable purposes: if a coat of arms, correctly engraven, should step first into view, we consider it a singular advantage gained over a reader, like the first blow in a combat. The dedication itself becomes a pair of stilts, which advance an author something higher. As a horse-shoe, nailed upon the threshold of a cottage, prevents the influence of the witch; so a first-rate name, at the head of a dedication, is a total bar against the critic; but this great name, like a great officer, sometimes unfortunately stands at. | An History of Birmingham 1783 1 An History of Birmingham 1783 Project Gutenberg s An History of Birmingham 1783 by William Hutton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title An History of Birmingham 1783 Author William Hutton Release Date November 2 2004 EBook 13926 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM 1783 Produced by Jonathan Ingram Charlie Kirschner and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. AN HISTORY OF BIRMINGHAM. Illustration the-text-caption THE SECOND EDITION WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS. By W. HUTTON. PREFACE. A preface rather induces a man to speak of himself which is deemed the worst subject upon which he can speak. In history we become acquainted with things but in a preface with the author and for a man to treat of himself may be the most difficult talk of the two for in history facts are produced ready to the hand of the historian which give birth to thought and it is easy to cloath that thought in words. But in a preface an author is obliged to forge from the brain where he is sometimes known to forge without fire. In one he only reduces a substance into form but in the other he must create that substance. As I am not an author by profession it is no wonder if I am unacquainted with the modes of authorship but I apprehend the usual method of conducting the pen is to polish up a founding title-page dignified with scraps of Latin and then to hammer up a work to fit it as nearly as genius or want of genius will allow. An History of Birmingham 1783 2 We next turn over a new leaf and open upon a pompous dedication which answers many laudable purposes if a coat of arms correctly engraven should step first into view we consider it a singular advantage gained over a .

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