Carmina Minima - Softcover

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Trifles (which cer- taii JyA utolycus himfelf would not care to fnap up )was intended only for private circulation, as a keepfake and memorial of old and (weet friend Jhips ;of cordial acquaintances ;and of abounding holpitalities. The old faying however recurred to me; There be many that do know the Lord Mayor s Jefter; but whom the Lord Mayor s Jefter doth not know; and fo, I, in my ate public capacity of lefturer, may poflefs numerous unrecognized friends among my audiences, who might defire to retain fome fmall memento of one, who claimed, at all events, the merit of an honeft zeal and affiduity in adminiftering to their intelletftual demands and recreation :I therefore determined upon the ufual, open form of publication. The compofitions themfelves are cafual thoughts, fcattered, at long intervals, over more than a half century of varied, bufy, and every-day mental employment. They accurately fulfil the prefent intention of their author concerning them ;fince, being Trifles, they betoken his Refpe 5l in this, their prefentation. Nice, Nov.
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