[246] In another place he indulges his ironical wit at the expense of the beef-eaters, in representing a certain Cretan personage in Greek story to have
“Promoted breeding cattle,
To make the Cretans bloodier in battle;
For we all know that English people are
Fed upon beef. . . . .
We know, too, they are very fond of war—
A pleasure—like all pleasures—rather dear.”
[247] See Life and Letters. Murray.
[248] Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Sir R. Phillips. London, 1808.
[249] They had been published by him several years earlier in the Medical Journal for July 27 1811.