The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 2I9] thor) into another work, is often very difficult, and without long quotations, too apt to tire the reader, impcflible. In this light a very fine thought of Mr. Pope’s occurs to my memory. Tho’ index-learning turns no ftudent pale, It holds the eel of fcience by the tail. The beft way then of proceeding with fo flippery a reafoner ; the only way, in¬ deed, in which I fee any poffibiiity of proceeding with him, is firft to lay down fome general rules, all of which will hereafter be proved out of his writings, and then purilling him chapter by chap¬ ter, to extract die feverai proofs, how¬ ever fcattered and difperfecl, which tend to eftablifh both parts of the contradic¬ tions, which I ihall now fet down. Our noble author fets out in his fir ft fedbon, with a fly inflnuation, that it is poffible for the graveft of philofophers on the graveft of fubjedts, to advance propofttions in jeft. ‘ It is more pro-