Few Things Are So Liberally Bestowed, Or

I Have Always Said The First Whig Was The Devil.

Leisure And Curiosity Might Soon Make Great Advances In Useful Knowledge, Were They Not Diverted By Minute Emulation And Laborious Trifles.

Few Of Those Who Fill The World With Books, Have Any Pretensions To The Hope Either Of Pleasing Or Instructing. They Have Often No Other Task Than To Lay Two Books Before Them, Out Of Which They Compile A Third, Without Any New Material Of Their Own, And With Very Little Application Of Judgment To Those Which Former Authors Have Supplied.

This Merriment Of Parsons Is Mighty Offensive.

Wit Is That Which Has Been Often Thought, But Never Before Was Well Expressed.