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3 septembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.3206
- isbn: 9782251661810
- eisbn: 9791036516412
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Irène Simon, « Introduction », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.3206
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Boswell relates that when Mr. Beauclerck’s library was sold in 1781 John Wilkes expressed his surprise at finding that this gentleman owned so many sermons; to which Johnson replied: “Why, Sir, you are to consider that sermons make a considerable branch of literature; so that a library must be very imperfect if it has not a numerous collection of sermons.” In the eighteenth century sermons indeed constituted an important part of publishers’ lists, as they had done in earlier ages, and they we...