We will even prosecute them at the suit of the philosophers, in the
following form: We’ll prove, if we can, that it is impossible to live
a pleasurable life according to their tenets. Bless me! said I to him,
smiling, you seem to me to level your foot at the very bellies of the
men, and to design to enter the list with them for their lives, whilst
you go about to rob them thus of their pleasure, and they cry out to
you,
“Forbear, we’re no good boxers, sir;
no, nor good pleaders, nor good senators, nor good magistrates either;