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The cobler's letter to the author of Thelyphthora [M. Madan], intended as a supplement to Mr. Hill's address, intitled, "The blessings of polygamy." ... / [Sir Richard Hill].

  • Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808.
Date:
1781
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Credit: The cobler's letter to the author of Thelyphthora [M. Madan], intended as a supplement to Mr. Hill's address, intitled, "The blessings of polygamy." ... / [Sir Richard Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to own the truth, Mr. Hill (feigned as the fenfe of the deficiency of bis own abilities may be) chofe rather to pafs fox a Codler as heis, than to exalt himfelf on {tilts not hisown, or to ftrut about like Z/op’s daw in borrowed _ plumes, or /E/op’s afs in the lion’s fkin. ~ T remember well laft winter when Ad- miral Keppel was {peaking in the houfe of Commons, he faid he would: not from thenceforth call S7~ Hugh Pallifer by his own name, but by the name of the Gover- nor of Greenwich Hofpital, which he accord- ingly did in every other fpeech he made during the different times the bufinefs re- lative to the Portfimouth Court Martial, or any thing elfe which concerned the Navy was debated.—So,—-Sz parva liceat componere magnis, every time I have occafion to in- troduce my own infignificant name, inftead of Richard Hill, I fhall call myfelf zhe Cod- ler. And if we confider into what great and refpectable company I fhall introduce myfelf by the appellation, perhaps there may be more pride than humility in my af- fuming it. Nay, I know not whether it may not be at leaft as honorable as being {tiled Governor of Greenwich Hofpital. For