Category: Humour
I Had done myself the honour to write to you long ago, but wanted a convenience of sending my letter; for you must not imagine ’tis as easy a matter for us on this side the river _Styx_, to maintain a correspondence with you in the upper world, as ’tis to send a pacquet from _...
I Had done myself the honour to write to you long ago, but wanted a convenience of sending my letter; for you must not imagine ’tis as easy a matter for us on this side the rive...
2. PART II.Unless my memory fails me since my coming into these subterranean dominions, ’twas much about this time last year, that I did myself the honour to write to you: perhaps you expe...
3. PART III.I was forc’d to break off my last abruptly, by reason of the vast crowds of people, which press’d upon me then for advice, so that I could not present you with a full catalogue...
4. part I am of opinion, that king _David_ is not oblig’d to any of you,but ought to cudgel you all round; for I can find no other difference between the _Jewish_ monarch in his ancient collar of _ekes_ and _ayes_, which you and your brethren there...
5. LETTER I._Ingatum fi dixere omnia dixeris_, was the saying of one of the greatest sages of antiquity; to whose name and merits I presume you can be no stranger. _Perit quod facias ingrat...
6. LETTER II.I don’t know what plenty of _Latin_ you may have in the _University_; tho’, by the bye, I can hardly believe you are so overstock’d with it as you pretend; but I dare swear that...
7. LETTER III.Since you were so wonderfully kind in your last letter, as out of your great liberality to honour me with some of your own directions, I am resolv’d not to be behind-hand with y...