Ep1-006

shelf:dibdin:passage:ep1-006

{"anchor": {"edition": "London: Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-Square; and J. Major, Fleet-Street. MDCCCXXIV.", "leaf": 11, "ocr_render": "djvu-xml: WORDs joined by ' ', LINEs by '\\n', per OBJECT (leaf order)", "ocr_source": "librarycompanion00dibduoft_djvu.xml", "ocr_span": [494, 1360], "page": "ii", "scan": "https://archive.org/download/librarycompanion00dibduoft/librarycompanion00dibduoft_jp2.zip/librarycompanion00dibduoft_jp2%2Flibrarycompanion00dibduoft_0011.jp2", "uri": "https://archive.org/details/librarycompanion00dibduoft/page/n11"}, "atom": "shelf:dibdin:passage:ep1-006", "book": "Thomas Frognall Dibdin, The Library Companion", "bridges": [], "level": "SOURCE", "section": "The Preface", "stratum": "original", "text": "It follows therefore, that of the rising generation, a\nlarge proportion, inheriting a considerable property,\nand educated in the most accomplished manner, com-\nmence their career in life with the means and oppor-\ntunities of gratifying their tastes and passions in a\nthousand diverse, and at times contradictory, pursuits.\nTo SUCH, in particular, whether emerging from the\ncloisters of a college, or from the upper form of a\npublic school, this LIBRARY COMPANION will be found\nof more consequence than may be at first imagined :\nfor I am greatly deceived if experience does not prove\nthat much more than half of the misery which is\nabroad in the world, in the higher classes of soci' ij ,\nhas arisen from the mischievous application of super-\nfluous wealth."}