Author Conal Condren looks at the writing career of Dr. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735), a successful and enlightened physician, mathematician, scientist, musician, and, most famously, a satirist. Arbuthnot, together with friends Swift, Pope, and Gray, formed the Scriblerian Club, a rare meeting of minds bent on satirizing and exposing what they saw as false learning and intellectual pretension.
A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love
Excerpt from Whig and Tory, or Wit on Both Sides: Being the Collection of State Poems, Upon All Remarkable Occurrences, From the Change of the Ministry, to This Time L 0 N' D o g N, Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible againfi St. Dim/fan's Church in Fleet-fireet, I7 I 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
`The church in danger' : latitudinarians, socinians, and hobbists -- Animal spirits and living fibres -- Mortalists and materialists -- Journalism, exile, and clandestinity -- Mid-eighteenth-century materialism -- Epilogue: Some consequences.