A modern dissertation on a certain necessary piece of household furniture.

Date:
1752
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A modern dissertation on a certain necessary piece of household furniture. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    more peculiarly to belong to a Set of effeminate Males whofe Life is chiefly fpent in the Chamber, and whofe Knowledge, in its fulleft Ex¬ tent, reaches no farther than fbrting and fancying Furniture. In my own Defence I reply, that though they may probably be well acquainted with the Subject, yet it is impoffi- ble that they fhould treat it with any Degree of Merit, as they are wholly unacquainted with thofe great Writers to whom I have fo copioufly referred. I may provoke them, but at the fame time I laugh at them, and look upon them in every light as mere Nothings, EJl neutrale genus fgnans rent non animat am.