A decorative typographical headpiece consisting of four horizontal rows of repeating ornamental fleurons (stylized floral or urn-like motifs) separated by a row of small circular characters.

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There is no way of writing so effective original: "proper" for the refining and polishing of a language as the translating of books into it, provided that the person who undertakes it has a competent skill in the one language and is a master of the other. When a man writes his own thoughts, the heat of his imagination original: "Fancy" and the quickness of his mind carry him so far in pursuit of the ideas original: "Notions" themselves that, for the most part, he is too passionate original: "warm" to judge the appropriateness of his words and the