The dreamer / [Anon].

  • William King
Date:
1754
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Credit: The dreamer / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    amethod of fecuring themfelves and their poffeffions againft all attacks for the future: and this has been the mot fortunate day of their lives. It feems their workmen very lately took into their heads, that, becaufe they were fuch fkilful manufacturers of pa- - per, by the fame art, and by avery natu- ' yal tranfition they might form themfelves into a band of orators, politicians, poets and Ahiftorians; and with the fpirit of mechanics frame rules for the government of a great empire. But, after mature confideration, they were fenfible, that they could not poflibly complete this grand fcheme without the gift tof memory. ‘To this intent they fought out the temple of Mnemosyne. They fuppli- cated the Goddefs: they bribed her priefts: they offered incenfe: they promifed heca- tombs: they obtained their requeft. And, if the Inrznpawnts had not opportunely pre- vented the effects of Mnemosywe’s bene- faction in the manner you obferved, théy H 2 would
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