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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    [ 3+ ] ignorant, if the la ft, very impudent. ———- Utrum horum mavis accipe. H a d a gay young Fellow cut a Joke on the having many Children, and reprefented it as a Misfortune, it might be more excufable ; but it ill becomes our Author, who has really been bieft with a numerous Offspring, to call that a lamentable Thing, which the Scrip¬ ture enumerates among the greateft of Earthly Bleffings: It is a (hocking Fiece of Impiety for him in this Cafe to cry out, -—- Quceque ipfe miferrima vidi. It is pity but he fhould be rendered incapable of Getting more fince he fo loudly complains. This Chapter is concluded with another Paffage from Mr Gordons Grammar, in his Defcription of England, tho’ our Plagiary has not the Honefty to quote him, but would have thefe Words pafs for his Own.
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