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From: Boulet A. <neo...@sk...> - 2009-08-25 11:54:23
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Ir neighbours. In a word, we shall set nobody together by the ears. And though we have encouraged the ingenious world to correspond with us by letters, we hope they will not take it ill, that we say beforehand, no letters will be taken notice of by us which contain any personal reproaches, intermeddle with family breaches, or tend to scandal or indecency of any kind." "The current papers are more than sufficient to carry on all the dirty work the town can have for them to do; and what with party strife, politics, poetic quarrels, and all the other consequences of a wrangling age, they are in no danger of wanting employment; and those readers who delight in such things, may divert themselves there. But our views, as is said above, lie another way." Good writing is what Defoe promises the readers of the _Universal Spectator_, and this leads him to consider what particular qualifications go to the composition, or, in a word, "what is required to denominate a man |