"For it is well known we are not many of us like that Roman who wished for windows to his breast that all might be as conspicuous there as in his house, which, for that reason, he had built as open as was possible."
Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author  [collected in Characteristics]
A complicated publication history. At least 10 entries in ESTC (1710, 1711, 1714, 1733, 1744, 1751, 1757, 1758, 1773, 1790).<br>
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See <u>Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author</u> (London: John Morphew, 1710). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T92975">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-PEQAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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See also "Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author" in <u>Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes.</u> (London: John Darby, 1711). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T30440">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Some text drawn from ECCO and Google Books; also from Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. <u>Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times</u>, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: CUP, 2001). Klein's text is based on the British Library's copy of the second edition of 1714. [Texts to be collated.]