The life and adventures of Don Bilioso de L'Estomac / Translated from the original Spanish into French; done from the French into English. With a letter to the College of Physicians.

  • Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.
Date:
1719
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Credit: The life and adventures of Don Bilioso de L'Estomac / Translated from the original Spanish into French; done from the French into English. With a letter to the College of Physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    toent of the grand Affairs in the World, v,: have the leaft Curiofity in prying into them -, an this perhaps produces that Indolence of Temper i us, that we rarely make Noife enough to be heard b our neighbour Nations, and therefore fcorn t liften to their Secrets -, if by chance an Improvemci of any of the Arts or Sciences (that has flood tH tefl of the Englijh Criticks) appears here in public! it is receiv’d with an entire Submiflion, and v, reckon it as binding on us as your Englijh Acts i Parliament : Indeed if the Truth or Ufefulnels any fitch Improvement be controverted among yo we generally take the ftrongeft fide, and fo lib in perfeét Harmony and Peace among each odie, whether it be that our Pofleffions being fmall ai pretty much on a level, or whatever elfe may be t. reafon, we religioufly agree not to invade or diftu: each other’s Property. Gentlemen, if fome amo’ you had follow’d thefe pacifick Maxims, you h: laved your felves the Trouble of this Epiftle, at me the Expence and Trouble of buying and read! Dr. IVh State of Phyfick. The Beginning of this ingenious Performair put me in Mind of Don Quixote's good Squ Sancho, whofe favourite Maxim was, that the Be: kept up the Heart, and not the Heart the Belly. won