Books afford Consolation to the troubled Mind by substituting a lighter kind of Distress for its own--They are productive of other Advantages--An Author's Hope of being known in distant times-- Arrangement of the Library--Size and Form of the Volumes--The ancient Folio, clasped and chained--Fashion prevalent even in this Place--The Mode of publishing in Numbers, Pamphlets &c.--Subjects of the different Classes--Divinity--Controversy--The Friends of Religion often more dangerous than her Foes--Sceptical Authors-- Reason too much rejected by the former Converts; exclusively relied upon by the latter--Philosophy ascending through the Scale of Being to Moral Subjects--Books of Medicine: their Va…
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