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Wisdom And Folly: A Vision.
author whatsoever . The idea was in him orig inal : he hoped that by a coalition they might become the same species , a jun & ion which would console him for a disappointment which he had experienced in a projefted intermarriage of fleas with lobsters . He , with reason , observed , that there was less chance for any legal impediment being proved in bar of a louse and a bug coming together than a flea and a lobsteras the size and constitution of the parties did not appear
, quite so disproportionate . In the case of the lobster , it was to be dreaded , that if a female flea were married to a male lobster , instead of nonditm , it would be " NUNOTIAM munia comtaris
JEquare , nee tauri mentis In -venerem tolerare fondus . ' ' [ I beg the philosopher ' s pardon for quoting . a language with which he is not conversant . But there is one Christopher Smart , who , if consulted , may give him something like the meaning . ]] On the other handif a female lobster were married to a male flea ,
, she would be still worse off ; too little being worse than too much . The lobster mig ht soon apply for a divorce , ex causa impolentke . Although a very able man says , that it is an excuse no modest female will plead , I have some doubts if the lobster would be so delicate . Sir Numskull Nicknack , ( for so the gentleman was called ) shewed himself well skilled in the names of many tribes of reptiles , but
I could not discover what useful inferences . he drew from his researches . He was , moreover , acquainted with the mode of propapagating some of the larger animals . He had , I found , proposed great improvements in the breed of sheep , —the sheep which he recommended being deficient in nothing but size , wool , and mutton . In " procreation , however , he was only a theorist , never having succeeded at the practice .
" Tehimque imbclle sine ictu , ' ' ' No less knowing did he demonstrate himself in the names of herbs , an acquaintance the more intimate and extensive , as he never suffered his attention to he diverted from the vocabulary of plants to their PROPERTIES and USES . Queen Folly ( who was very fond of curiosities , when ht on their own accountand without any regard to USE )
soug , , expressed great delight and admiration at Sir Numskull Nicknack ' s collection . Another solemn personage accompanied Sir Numskull , called Mynheer Antique , who produced a fragment of one of those vessels which are used in bed-chambers . This , Mr . Antique informed her Majesty , he had purchased at a great price , in an island which he had visitsd in his travels : it had been devoted to the
convenience of a Maid of Honour to Mary , Queen of that country , a . faithful ally of Queen Folly , as was her sister and successor to Queen Wisdom . He likewise shewed a pair of old breeches from the same countries , that had once environed the right reverend parts of a very holy man , named Bishop Bonner . Mynheer Antique demonstrated , from the vessel , that Maids of Honour in former times used such utensils .
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Wisdom And Folly: A Vision.
author whatsoever . The idea was in him orig inal : he hoped that by a coalition they might become the same species , a jun & ion which would console him for a disappointment which he had experienced in a projefted intermarriage of fleas with lobsters . He , with reason , observed , that there was less chance for any legal impediment being proved in bar of a louse and a bug coming together than a flea and a lobsteras the size and constitution of the parties did not appear
, quite so disproportionate . In the case of the lobster , it was to be dreaded , that if a female flea were married to a male lobster , instead of nonditm , it would be " NUNOTIAM munia comtaris
JEquare , nee tauri mentis In -venerem tolerare fondus . ' ' [ I beg the philosopher ' s pardon for quoting . a language with which he is not conversant . But there is one Christopher Smart , who , if consulted , may give him something like the meaning . ]] On the other handif a female lobster were married to a male flea ,
, she would be still worse off ; too little being worse than too much . The lobster mig ht soon apply for a divorce , ex causa impolentke . Although a very able man says , that it is an excuse no modest female will plead , I have some doubts if the lobster would be so delicate . Sir Numskull Nicknack , ( for so the gentleman was called ) shewed himself well skilled in the names of many tribes of reptiles , but
I could not discover what useful inferences . he drew from his researches . He was , moreover , acquainted with the mode of propapagating some of the larger animals . He had , I found , proposed great improvements in the breed of sheep , —the sheep which he recommended being deficient in nothing but size , wool , and mutton . In " procreation , however , he was only a theorist , never having succeeded at the practice .
" Tehimque imbclle sine ictu , ' ' ' No less knowing did he demonstrate himself in the names of herbs , an acquaintance the more intimate and extensive , as he never suffered his attention to he diverted from the vocabulary of plants to their PROPERTIES and USES . Queen Folly ( who was very fond of curiosities , when ht on their own accountand without any regard to USE )
soug , , expressed great delight and admiration at Sir Numskull Nicknack ' s collection . Another solemn personage accompanied Sir Numskull , called Mynheer Antique , who produced a fragment of one of those vessels which are used in bed-chambers . This , Mr . Antique informed her Majesty , he had purchased at a great price , in an island which he had visitsd in his travels : it had been devoted to the
convenience of a Maid of Honour to Mary , Queen of that country , a . faithful ally of Queen Folly , as was her sister and successor to Queen Wisdom . He likewise shewed a pair of old breeches from the same countries , that had once environed the right reverend parts of a very holy man , named Bishop Bonner . Mynheer Antique demonstrated , from the vessel , that Maids of Honour in former times used such utensils .