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Excerpt from Essays, Moral and Polite, 1660-1714
Introduction compast and surrounded with his protection the shop of warre hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new motions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching Reformation, others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.' But with the coming of the new rules, such prose, whether wild or noble, became impossible. Instead of the splendid music of the prose of Milton, or of Jeremy Taylor, or of Sir Thomas Browne, or of Thomas Fuller, we have the calm, sedate, and ordered rhythms of writers schooled in a new tradition. We have but to turn to Dryden's Preface to 'all for Love, ' to note the difference; and to see how clearly and coldly and decorously the new writers make their statements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
