A very whimsical, but most improbable collection of “Supposes.”
“If he be Cæsar, let him boldly think himself the greatest captain in the world.”
“Presumption is divided into two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.”
CHAP. XXIV. [P. 141.]
The reader is introduced to a phœnomenon of a very different kind from the Comet which blazed and scorched in the last chapter.
CHAP. XXV. [P. 147.]
A Blue Stocking Dame of the very highest order, yclept Huniades.—“Her humour as fantastic as her diet. Nothing that is English must come near her. All her delight is in foreign impertinencies. She’s for any thing that comes from beyond sea. She must have some decayed persons of quality about her, for the Commons of England are the strangest creatures.”
CHAP. XXVI. [P. 154.]
A young gentleman born to nothing,