If in
reasons, comparisons, and arguments, I transplant any into my soile,
or confound them with mine owne, I purposely the author,
thereby to bridle the rashnesse of these hastie censures that are so
headlong cast upon all manner of compositions, namely young writings
of men yet living; and in vulgare that admit all the world to talke
of them, and which seemeth to convince the conception and publike
designe alike.
reasons, comparisons, and arguments, I transplant any into my soile,
or confound them with mine owne, I purposely the author,
thereby to bridle the rashnesse of these hastie censures that are so
headlong cast upon all manner of compositions, namely young writings
of men yet living; and in vulgare that admit all the world to talke
of them, and which seemeth to convince the conception and publike
designe alike.
Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant
