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1828 Sept. 12
Blackstone

Thus So much for fiction. Now for truth: – simple, sober, serious
and but too frequently melancholy truth. If in many
parts of the field in the course of our progress the sombre hue of it should be found in
any degree enlivened, the more it can be so the better:
the greater the number of our readers, whom we can allow ourselves flatter
ourselves with the hope, how faint so ever of drawing hoping
or to accompany us to the termination of our
course. By a half-starved strolling Player Many a time will must a burst of indignation be
smothered, many a time a flow of tears misinterpreted
by a forced laugh. Alas! In the course of our progress,
we have found ourselves but too often in this here sad case.⊞ ⊞ "So vis one flea,
ipse : says
Latin Poet Hoace.
"Weep first thyself, if
"then woulds make us
weep. He might have
gone on and added A
correspondent precept he might
have added is –
"Laugh first thyself, if
"thee wouldst make me
"laugh. Not but that
in this case the sort
of laugh fittest for the
purpose is that which
is called the laugh in
the sleeve: alias the
dry laugh
"Laugh when we can"
(says another Poet).
☞ Quere what Poet, and
how does the passage go
on?

But we are relapsing into the sin of fiction.

Here then shall end our Preface. At With what immediately
follows commences the body of the our works.

Identifier: | JB/031/125/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.
Date_1	1828-09-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	125	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	9811
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