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I sincerely hope that you keep your health: I suppose that you will be thinking of returning soon with your magnificent collection and still grander mental materials. You will be puzzled how to publish. The Royal Society Fund will be worth your consideration. With every good wish, pray believe me yours very sincerely, I think that I told you before that Hooker is a complete convert.
From that time his lectures and conversations began to pay; he was seized anew with the desire to publish, and from 1868 until the beginning of his illness in 1882 he printed or reprinted nearly his entire works, some eight or ten volumes; it is no disparagement to the kindly old philosopher that his books were bought mainly on the success of his daughter's.
Shortly after our intimacy I told him that I had written a gipsy story dealing with the East Anglian gipsies and the Welsh gipsies, but that it had been so dinned into me by Borrow that in England there was no interest in the gipsies that I had never found heart to publish it.
The work was therefore so imperfectly done that the cardinal himself was reluctant to publish it; and the learned and honest Barnabite under whose editorial auspices it appeared was obliged to append a formidable list of errata, and to make a gentle apology in his preface for his friend's inaccuracies.
"But to YOU!" she said, and her voice rose clear and strong as she turned and stretched out her arm towards Rosa, who was leaning in a fainting condition against the wall "TO YOU, viper, who has stung to death the bosom that warmed you to life TO YOU, traitress, who has come between the true husband and his wife TO YOU, thief! who has stolen from your benefactress the sole treasure of her life TO YOU I have this to say: I will not drive you forth in dishonor from my door this night, nor will I publish your infamy to the world to-morrow, though you have deserved nothing less than these from my hands; but in the morning you must leave the house you have desecrated! for if you do not, or if ever I find your false face here again, I will tread down and crush out your life with less remorse than ever I set heel upon a spider!
With respect to the right to publish ideas and opinions and to assemble for the practice of a cult, it is even stated: The necessity for enunciating these rights presupposes either the presence or the recent memory of a despotism.
JOHNSON. 'Why, Sir, I am in the habit of getting others to do things for me. BOSWELL. 'What, Sir! have you that weakness? JOHNSON. 'Yes, Sir. But I always think afterwards I should have done better for myself. I expressed some inclination to publish an account of my Travels upon the continent of Europe, for which I had a variety of materials collected.
How could you publish what tends so directly and apparently to weaken in mankind the belief of those sanctions? Was not this sacrificing the great interests of virtue to the little motives of vanity? Bayle. A man may act indiscreetly, but he cannot do wrong, by declaring that which, on a full discussion of the question, he sincerely thinks to be true. Locke.
"I mean that this affair from beginning to end appears to me like a case of arrant flirtation, to say the least of it such a case as you would find it rather inconvenient to have blazoned through the world: especially with the additions and exaggerations of your female rivals, who would be too glad to publish the matter, if I only gave them a handle to it.
"This is a coincidence," he said. "I was looking, sir, for your name in the pages which I have just put into your hand. Surely the editor can't have refused to publish your letter?" Mr. "I don't understand you," he answered gruffly. "What do you mean?" "Is it possible that you have not seen last week's number of the paper?" Mr. Paul asked. "And you a literary man!"
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