Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution, in four cantos / By Christopher Caustic [pseud].

  • Thomas Green Fessenden
Date:
1803
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Credit: Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution, in four cantos / By Christopher Caustic [pseud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. The demand for a second edition of Caus¬ tic’s Petition, within the short period of two months from the publication of the first, has excited so much vanity in the author as,to induce him to believe that his eiforts have not been altogether unacceptable, and to hope that his objects may ultimately prove not to have been altogether unaccomplished. With such a re¬ ward for former exertions, and such an incite¬ ment for future, it will be thought natural in him to have used his endeavour for a continu¬ ance of public favour. The present edition, which contains more than double the quantity of matter that composed the last, will plead the virtue of industry, even should the merit of the new matter not justly lay claim to that indulgence with which the former was honoured.
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