"To solace mental fatigue by the amusements of fancy, is no loss of time. Students know how often the eye is busied in wandering over the page, while the mind lies in torpid inactivity; they therefore compute their time, not by the hours consumed in study, but by the real acquisitions they obtain; they do not number the voyages they make, but the gold and the diamonds they bring home."
A Dissertation on Anecdotes
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1793).<br>
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<u>A Dissertation on Anecdotes; by the Author of Curiosities of Literature.</u> (London: Printed for C. and G. Kearsley, and J. Murray, 1793). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T109208">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004871393.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;