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- VOL. I. U 290 LIFE OF of the gall ill which the writer had clipped his pen. The scheme^ however, did not answer. Very few indeed were ever sold ; but more since it was known to be mine than before. I believe, in accounting for the general in- felicity of my publications, two other causes should be considered; the one is, a scarcity of advertising, to which I am driven by the enor- mity of the expence, ^ which would readily swallow up all the profits of my little produc- tions; and the other, ...the want of that zeal which a M'ell-accnstomcd bookseller will exer* cise in the sale of works v/orthy of his pur* chase. My second and principal inducement to the suppression of my name, at the publication of that pamphlet, M^as, an unwillingness to disgust my good friends at Cambridge; or to speak more properly, a fear of irritating them to such a degree, by my rudeness to " the great god- dess Diana, whom all Asia worshippeth, "^ as i " Poverty is a disease which rages as much and as fre- quently in the republic of letters as the plague in Constan- tinople.
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