Sketches From Life, By the Late Laman Blanchard, Vol. 1 of 3

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Excerpt from Sketches From Life, By the Late Laman Blanchard, Vol. 1 of 3: With a Memoir of the Author In his life are apparent many Of the sores and evils peculiar to literary men in a country in which mind is regarded but as a common ware of merchandise, its products to be bought but by the taste and fashion of the public, with no resource in those provisions which elsewhere (and in Germany more especially) the state affords to such as quit the Agora for the Schools. The institution of professional chairs in Germany has not only saved many a scholar from famine, many a genius from despair, but, by Offering subsistence and dignity to that valuable class of writers whose learning and capacities unfit them, by reason of their very depth, for wide popularity, it has given worthy and profitable inducements to grave study, and, more than all else, has maintained the German fame for patient erudition, and profound philosophy. And this has been effected without the evils which free traders in literature have supposed the concomitants Of the system, it has not lessened the boldness and originality of such authors as a Public alone can reward and appreciate, nor has it crushed, by the patronage of a State, the spirit Of free inquiry and enlarged discussion. In England, the author who would live on his works can live only by the Public 5 in other words, by the desultory readers of light literature, and hence the inevitable tendency of our literary youth is towards the composition of works without learning and forethought. Leisure is impos sible, to him who must meet the exigences of the day 3 much information Of a refining and original kind is not for the multitude. The more imaginative rush to novels, and the more re¿ective fritter away their lives in articles for periodicals. Under such in¿uences the author of these volumes lived and died. 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.