It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.
Bio: Alexander Bicknell, author, was an industrious littérateur of the last quarter of the eighteenth century, whose writings received received ridicule or faint praise in the Monthly Review. He died 22 August 1796 in St. Thomas's Hospital, London.