A reply to Dr. Gray's three answers to a written paper : entitled Mr. Worger's case / by Christopher Packe.

  • Packe, Christopher, 1686-1749
Date:
1727
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Credit: A reply to Dr. Gray's three answers to a written paper : entitled Mr. Worger's case / by Christopher Packe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to Reprejent as a Clan deft in 2 Practice. Thefe Gtntleme n,, with fome of whom 1 hid but- a flight Acquaintance, refiding in different farts of the Country, had free Liberty to Communicate as they thought fit, but not to Multiply their Copies. Who, fo far as / know, did not hand them about in that Private manner, the Dr. mentions, nor keep them fo clofe, as that he could not,, with much lefs trouble than he has taken to obtain hisAffidavits j have had the Uie of one of them long before. I did not indeed think that his Condudf had deferv’d fo much Regard, as Jhould difpofe me to fend any Particular Paper to him, but I do afjure the Dr. that the Copy, , which I left with Mr* Saul at Folkftone was deftgn’d for HIS ufe 5 and I fully expeBed that by a very Probable Hand he would foon have had the Sight of it. If / mifs'd my Aim, or if tie Dr-through the want of Rhetorick among his Deponents, could not get together the Materials ofhisAnfwer Sooner., I u hope it won’t be concluded amongft thole to whom his Printed Pamphlets are come ” that through Shame of my Caufe or fear of his Lear¬ ned Pen, my a Way of Dealing was fo Private as he would make the World beleive.. Nor was it without Reafon, that I excus’d myfelf to the very Reverend IPerlon ofDiftin£tion, whom he mentions,, when He was pleas’d to ask the Perufal of a Copy of my M. S* then left in his Hands in Obedience to his Commands \ for befides that I Remembred the Dr’s. Secreting his File from my Sight (which I then gave as the exprefs Re afon, and fill think to be a fair Vindication of myRe« filial) I was at that Juncture indeed very unwilling to Revive an Affair, that had long decently fleptin Silencebeing deftrous of Beginning in Peace and Qui- einefs, that new Station of Life, to which I was then happily engag’d. But the more Privately my M. S. was handed about, the more Needlefs and in¬ deed Ridiculous is the Dr.’s Bluffring Reply •, wherein he THRICE breathing Rage and Ruin, Marfhals his Men under Sanga the Centurion, and like a true Thrafi>, Himielf remains poft Principia. This Battle I find Comically deferib’d by Strep- Hades under the Similitude of a Humean* - - - —xj JIhva n oi« y IvSvf fee# iy TlAf&Kf}* X’ &rnn% /3forty tv ^esydDoy Jlttya, ituas GtfccTvv Kcjartff &myu nAIlAnilAs x* &>']ecv wfiiJS nAUAnAnnAS Which I thus Tranflate; Graviter me Statim exagitat, & Tumultus Cietur. Ac Veluti Tonitru, Jufculum ftrepitat Sc horribiliter Vociferat. Primo RemiiTe Pappax, dehinc addit PAPAPPAX. Et cum Gaco, confertim intonat PAPAPAPPAX, ™.„. Axifiophanes in Nubihus, Aft* i« Seen* f