[Footnote 1: 'Judges' ix. 8--15.]
[Footnote 2: '2 Sam.' xii. 1--4.]
[Footnote 3: 'Livy,' Bk. II. sec. 32.]
[Footnote 4: Xenophon's 'Memorabilia Socratis, Bk. II.]
[Footnote 5: 'Phaedon', § 10.]
[Footnote 6: that]
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No. 184. Monday, October 1, 1711. Addison.
'... Opere in longo fas est obrepere somnum ...'
Hor.
When a Man has discovered a new Vein of Humour, it often carries him
much further than he expected from it. My Correspondents take the Hint I
give them, and pursue it into Speculations which I never thought of at
my first starting it. This has been the Fate of my Paper on the Match of
Grinning, which has already produced a second Paper on parallel
Subjects, and brought me the following Letter by the last Post. I shall
not premise any thing to it further than that it is built on Matter of
Fact, and is as follows.