The Initials: A Story of Modern Life

The Initials: A Story of Modern Life

Initial, adj. [Initial, Fr.; initialis, from initium, Lat.] 1. Placed at the beginning. 2. Incipient; not complete.Johnsons Dictionary. Initial, ale. adj. Il se dit des lettres, des syllables qui commencent un mot. En termes de calligraphie et dimprimerie, on appelle plus particulirement lettre initiale, la lettre qui commence un livre, un chapitre, etc. Il semploie aussi substantivement, au feminin, pour lettre initiale. Il na sign ce billet que de linitiale de son nom, que de son initiale. Dans ce manuscrit, les initiales sont en rouge.Dictionnaire de lAcadmie Franaise. I think these quotations authorise me to call the following pages The Initials. According to Dr. Johnson, they would be intended to be placed at the beginning; would be incipient; not complete. It is the public who have now to decide whether what has been placed at the beginning is to have a continuation, whether what is incipient, and not complete, is to be formed and completed. Un billet sign dune initiale gave rise to all the events here related; proving the truth of the words of Bayley, in his Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions, that, In everything we do we may be possibly laying a train of consequences, the operation of which may terminate only with our existence. Had those initials not excited curiosity or interest, the so-signed billet would have been thrown aside and forgotten, or directed to the post-town from whence it came, there to seek the writer, or to be consigned to the dead-letter office. And so it will be with these Initials, should they awake no interest, nor excite a wish to know more; they too will be thrown aside and forgotten, or it may be that the manuscript will be redirected to the place from whence it came, thence to be consigned to merited oblivion in the dead-letter drawer of an old writing-table, among a number of truths dressed in fiction, which had been intended for publication under the names of Journals, Reminiscences, Tales, Novels, or whatever else they may have been entitled. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 58908
Author: Tautphoeus, Jemima Montgomery
Release Date: Feb 17, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English