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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,
VOLTAIRE, FOOTE, STEEVENS, WOLCOT, SHERIDAN, CURRAN,
COLMAN, AND OTHERS:

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 human 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 Tap-
rooms, 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. STEVENS.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, JONES, AND CO. PATERNOSTER-ROW; JOHN ANDERSON, JUN. EDINBURGH;
4. CUMMING, DUBLIN; AND TO BE HAD OF ALL DEALERS IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE.

Price 10s. 6d. bound,

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