| [No. 138] | Wednesday, August 8, 1711 | Steele |
Utitur in re non Dubia testibus non necessariis.
Tull.
One meets now and then with Persons who are extreamly learned and knotty in Expounding clear Cases.
Tully
tells
of an Author that spent some Pages to prove that Generals could not perform the great Enterprizes which have made them so illustrious, if they had not had Men. He asserted also, it seems, that a Minister at home, no more than a Commander abroad, could do any thing without other Men were his Instruments and Assistants. On this Occasion he produces the Example of