Every Man Stands or Falls to his Own Reason; and it is No Excuse to say
that I was Misled by Example, or Conjecture, when I had the Means before
me of Informing my self Better. If This Prodigal had but Consulted the
Almanack, or his own Experience, it would have set him Right in the
Course of the Seasons, or the Old Proverb Methinks might have satisfy’d
him, that _One Swallow makes no Summer_, Unless the Fable perchance
should fall out to be the Ancienter of the Two, and the Occasion of that
Proverb: But there are Certain Extravagants among People of all Sizes
and Professions, and there must be no Drawing of General Rules from
Particular Exceptions.