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"Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus"
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Date: 1741
"Now supposing those stockings of Sir John's endued with some degree or consciousness at every particular darning, they would have been sensible that they were the same individual pair of stockings both before and after the darning; and this sensation would have continued in them through all the ...
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (bap. 1677, d. 1735)