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There are cases, as he remarked, in which the second edition has never appeared; and at any rate the man who waits for the reprint shows 'that he loves a pistole better than knowledge. Ancillon, however, always indulged himself with 'the most elegant edition, whatever the first might have been; he considered that 'the less the eyes are fatigued in reading or work the more liberty the mind feels in judging of it. It is easier to detect the merits in print than in manuscript: 'and so we see them more plainly in good paper and clear type than when the impression and paper are bad? Some have thought it better to have many editions of a good book: 'among other things, says our critic, 'we feel great satisfaction in tracing the variations. Ancillon was naturally accused of an indiscriminate mania for collecting; and he confessed that he was to some extent infected with the 'book-disease. It was said that he never left his books day or night, except when he went to preach to his humble congregation.
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