Merryland displayed: or, plagiarism, ignorance, and impudence, detected. : Being observations upon a pamphlet intituled A New Description of Merryland.

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Credit: Merryland displayed: or, plagiarism, ignorance, and impudence, detected. : Being observations upon a pamphlet intituled A New Description of Merryland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONCLUSION- IT would be eafy enough to point out many more Abfurdities and Inconfiftencies in the Pamphlet I have been fpeaking of; there is fcarce a Paragraph which is not liable to fome ftrong Objection; but as I have nei¬ ther Leifure nor Inclination to make Remarks on every Error of fuch a blundering Writer, I fhall now take my leave of him and his Works, having already fufficiently Demon- ft rated more than I at firft propofed. I have plainly fhewn that our Author has neither Learning, Wit, or Plumour, that he is not a Man of fuch great Reading as fome Peo¬ ple imagine, that his Tafte for Poetry is very indifferent; and that his Skill in Anatomy, Geography, Navigation, Natural Hiftory, &c. is fo little, that he is even ignorant of the common Terms of Art. As I have evidently proved all this beyond Contradiction, fo I have confequently proved the World in their Commendations of this Author have very much mi (took their Man, and let Fame run away with their Underftandings, that they have been grofsly impoled on by the Artifices of the Author and Publifher; and they who have