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The British Library shows second edition published 1729 and reprinted byD. A. Talboys, Oxford, 1841.
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By establishing an University where Gentlemen may have AcademicalEducation under the Eye of their Friends. II. By an Hospital for Foundlings. III. By forming an Academy of Sciences at Christ's Hospital. IV. By suppressing pretended Madhouses, where many of the Fair Sex areunjustly confined, while their Husbands keep Mistresses, &c., and many | Widows are locked up for the sake of their Jointure. V. To save our Youth from Destruction, by clearing the Streets ofimpudent Strumpets, suppressing Gaming Tables, and Sunday Debauches. VI. To save our lower Class of People from utter Ruin, and render themuseful, by preventing the immoderate use of Geneva: with a frankExplosion of many other common Abuses, and incontestible Rules forAmendment. |
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A man who has the public good in view, ought not in the least to bealarmed at the tribute of ridicule which scoffers constantly pay toprojecting heads. It is the business of a writer, who means well, to godirectly forward, without regard to criticism, but to offer his thoughtsas they occur; and if in twenty schemes he hits but on one to thepurpose, he ought to be excused failing in the nineteen for thetwentieth sake. It is a kind of good action to mean well, and theintention ought to palliate the failure; but the English, of all peoplein the world, show least mercy to schemists, for they treat them in thevilest manner; whereas other nations give them fair play for theirlives, which is the reason why we are esteemed so bad at invention.
I have but a short time to live, nor would