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Mr. S. forgot the solemn proverb, 'with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged. + Edit. 1826, pp. 41, 42. It was a sentiment which led to no practical evil. Ed. Psalm 118:24. 'That we read of' in the New Testament; for this is our sole authority in all inquiries as to a Christian's faith and practice. Ed.
Before I left home I had promised my earliest publisher that I would undertake to edit, or compile, or do something literary to, a work on the operation of the more distinctive mechanical inventions of our country, which he had conceived the notion of publishing by subscription.
But he wondered vaguely what the babies had, at the moment, to grow up upon, even as little vagabonds. Presently Hilary enlightened him. "I edit a magazine," he said, and Peter perceived that he was both proud and ashamed of the fact. "At least I am going to. A monthly publication for the entertainment and edification of the Englishman in Venice. Lord Evelyn Urquhart is financing it.
He had several hundred dollars, and as a writer he is considerably ahead of either of us. "'He'll run the paper into the ground, said Fitz, prophetically. "'If he does, it'll only be to give it firmer root. "'You are crazy about that country lout, said Fitz. 'It isn't much to edit a little village paper like that, after all. "So you see what your friend Fitz thinks about it.
John Marshall, the great jurist, had published his five-volume life of his fellow Virginian a score of years earlier. But Sparks proceeded to write another biography of Washington and to edit his writings. He also edited a "Library of American Biography," wrote lives of Franklin and Gouverneur Morris, was professor of history and President of Harvard, and lived to be seventy-seven.
'I shall disappoint him and grieve him bitterly. He has asked me to use my money in starting a new review. 'Which he is to edit? 'Yes. Do you think there would be any hope of its success? Jasper shook his head. 'Your father is not the man for that, Marian. I don't say it disrespectfully; I mean that he doesn't seem to me to have that kind of aptitude. It would be a disastrous speculation.
At least it is certain Dickens was satisfied, for in a letter written, apparently on the same day, to "my dearest Kate," he thus sums up the proposals of the publishers: "They have made me an offer of fourteen pounds a month to write and edit a new publication they contemplate, entirely by myself, to be published monthly, and each number to contain four wood-cuts.... The work will be no joke, but the emolument is too tempting to resist."
The poet had died in February of that year, and Lord John, with characteristic goodwill, had undertaken to edit his voluminous papers in order to help a widow without wounding her pride.
I know nothing more admirable than the lifelong relations of this talented and sincere family. This he declined because he had no taste for politics, and because he was averse to stated, routine literary work. Subsequently Mr. Murray offered him a salary of a thousand guineas to edit a periodical to be published by himself.
It must be admitted, however, that it was not altogether original with him. The idea was taken from E. Th. There were others, too, who claimed to have been honoured by his Satanic Majesty to edit his “journal.” J. R. Beard, a Unitarian minister, published in 1872 an Autobiography of Satan. This book has just appeared in English under the title Satan’s Diary.
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