An essay on nothing
| dc.contributor | Farringdon, Michael Department of Computer Science, University College of Swansea |
| dc.contributor.author | Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T11:05:56Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T11:05:56Z |
| dc.date.created | 1743 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2275 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2275 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2275 |
| dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website Publication based on this text: A computer-aided study of the prose style of Henry Fielding and its support for his translation of The military history of Charles XII / Michael Farringdon, Jill Farringdon. -- p. 95-105. In Advances in computer-aided literary and linguistic research : proceedings of the fifth international symposium on computers in literary and linguistic research held at the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK from 3-7 April 1978 / edited with an introduction by D.E. Ager, F.E. Knowles, Joan Smith. -- Aston : University of Aston, Department of Modern Languages, 1979. -- ISBN 0-903807-64-5. |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Essays -- Great Britain -- 18th century |
| dc.title | An essay on nothing |
| dc.type | Text |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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<A FIELDING>
<T MNOTHING>
<P 179><L 1>
AN ESSAY ON NOTHING.
THE INTRODUCTION
IT IS SURPRIZING, THAT WHILE SUCH TRIFLING MATTERS EMPLOY THE
MASTERLY PENS OF THE PRESENT AGE, THE GREAT AND NOBLE SUBJECT OF
THIS ESSAY SHOULD HAVE PASSED TOTALLY NEGLECTED; AND THE RATHER,
AS IT IS A SUBJECT TO WHICH THE GENIUS OF MANY OF THOSE WRITERS
WHO HAVE UNSUCCESSFULLY APPLIED THEMSELVES TO POLITICS, RELIGION,
ETC. IS MOST PECULIARLY ADAPTED.
PERHAPS THEIR UNWILLINGNESS TO HANDLE WHAT IS OF SUCH IMPORTANCE,
MAY NOT IMPROPERLY BE ASCRIBED TO THEIR MODESTY; THOUGH
THEY MAY NOT BE REMARKABLY ADDICTED TO THIS VICE ON EVERY
OCCASION. INDEED I HAVE HEARD IT PREDICATED OF SOME, WHOSE
ASSURANCE IN TREATING OTHER SUBJECTS HATH BEEN SUFFICIENTLY
NOTABLE, THAT THEY HAVE BLUSHED AT THIS. FOR SUCH IS THE AWE
WITH WHICH THIS NOTHING INSPIRES MANKIND, THAT I BELIEVE IT IS
GENERALLY APPREHENDED OF MANY PERSONS OF VERY HIGH CHARACTER
AMONG US, THAT WERE TITLE, POWER, OR RICHES TO ALLURE THEM,
THEY WOULD STICK AT . . .
