"A skilful writer of anecdotes, gratifies by suffering us to make something that looks like a discovery of our own; he gives a certain activity to the mind, and the reflections appear to arise from ourselves. He throws unperceivably seeds, and we see those flowers start up, which we believe to be of our own creation."
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;