A Tale of a Tub: With, The Battle of the Books; And, The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, 1710Scolar Press, 1971 - 344 pages |
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... Author's Wit is not his own in many Places . The first is , that the Names of Peter , Martin and Jack are bor- rowed from a Letter of the late Duke of Buckingham . Whatever Wit is contained in those three Names , the Author is content ...
... Author's Wit is not his own in many Places . The first is , that the Names of Peter , Martin and Jack are bor- rowed from a Letter of the late Duke of Buckingham . Whatever Wit is contained in those three Names , the Author is content ...
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... Author , and with an Infolence which 1 Suppofe is punishable by Law , hath prefumed to affign certain Names . It will be enough for the Author to affure the World , that the Writer of that Paper is utterly wrong in all his Conjectures ...
... Author , and with an Infolence which 1 Suppofe is punishable by Law , hath prefumed to affign certain Names . It will be enough for the Author to affure the World , that the Writer of that Paper is utterly wrong in all his Conjectures ...
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... Author's Wit , the great Usefulness of his fublime Difco veries upon the Subject of Flies and Spittle , or the laborious Eloquence of his Stile . And I cannot forbear doing that Author the Justice of my publick Acknowledg- ments , for ...
... Author's Wit , the great Usefulness of his fublime Difco veries upon the Subject of Flies and Spittle , or the laborious Eloquence of his Stile . And I cannot forbear doing that Author the Justice of my publick Acknowledg- ments , for ...
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