Contains John Jay's "New song of similes" under altered title of "Similes: to Molly", pp: 69+70. Lord Sandwich + femmy Tricted 2, p. 207 532. LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER BEING THE ENTIRE WORKS OF MOMUS, JESTER OF OLYMPUS; DEMOCRITUS, THE MERRY PHILOSOPHER OF GREECE, AND THEIR ILLUSTRIOUS DISCIPLES, BEN JONSON, BUTLER, SWIFT, GAY, JOSEPH MILLER, ESQ. CHURCHILL, TRANSLATED INTO OUR VERNACULAR ENGLISH TONGUE, BY JOHN BULL, ESQ. With numerous Additions, Interpolations, and Improvements, by the Editor, and different Branches of the Bull Family. "Laughing is the high prerogative of man, and that sublime and noble quality which distinguishes him from the brute creation. Those who cannot laugh gracefully, heartily, and by the hour at a time, scarcely ought to be ranked among the iman species. The sayings of Momus, the writings of Demo critus, and the attic works of Joe Miller, should, therefore, be studied in our Universities and Taprooms, Palaces and Cottages, Drawing-rooms and Kitchens, not only for health and pleasure, but from due regard to the dignity and honourable distinction of man."-G. A. STERVENS. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, JONES, AND CO. PATERNOSTER-ROW; JOHN ANDERSON, JUN, EDINBURGH; 3. CUMMING, DUBLIN; AND TO BE HAD OF ALL DEALERS IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE, Price 10s. 6d. bound. |