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R. Daglev del. et.sc.

OR THE

LIFE AND ERRORS

OF

MY UNCLE AND HIS FRIENDS!

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND OBSCURITIES,

BY

MESSIEURS TAG, RAG, AND BOBTAIL.

A LITERARY ROMANCE.

It is not, my dear Lord! by Electrical Experiments, nor by conduc-
tors of wire that we shall be able to avert the black storm which
hangs over us. Let you and me therefore be PHILOSOPHERS,
NOW AND THEN, but CITIZENS ALWAYS!
times observe with eagerness the Satellites of Fupiter, but let us
incessantly watch with jealousy the Satellites of the King!
Sir W. JONES to Lord Althorpe.

Let us some-

IN THREE VOLUMES, WITH ELEVEN PLATES.
A NEW EDITION,

WITH MATERIAL ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS.

VOL. III.

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CONTENTS.

VOL. III.

XLII.

A

PERSONAGE is introduced of a more extra-

ordinary nature, than hath ever yet been re-

corded, in authentic or fictitious History!.

XLIII.

1

The REVIEWERS; being a Narrative of an

ARCH CONSTABLE joining a Crew of jovial

Beggars.......

38

XLIV.

Literary Quarrels...........

XLV.

My Uncle's German METAPHYSICS-His Trea-

tise on the Letter I-Recipe to smoke a Kan-

tian!.......

XLVI.

60

78

My Uncle consults the Apothecary!—A Case of

Pricked Wines and Scotch Metaphysics—An

Emetic not yet discovered!.......

85

XLVII.

A Love Secret! and how an English Bull may

not feel himself a Match for an African Lioness! 94

XLVI II.

A first Assignation chiefly concerning the SUN ! ... 109

XLIX.

Amatory Gifts of a Naturalist-Prismatic Mille-

nery-The Hydraulic Nymph-Optical Expe-

riments-What a new Planet may turn out

to be!.........

L.

Of my Cousin !My Aunt's Longings-And the

Consequences thereof...

LI.

130

...... 148

Cuckoldom and Public Utility!-My Aunt and

CONTOUR are mutually smitten with a violent

Passion for the Fine Arts!......................................

LII.

..........

Progress of the Loves of two AMATEURS !-My

Aunt is charmed by exquisite Harmony-Her

Ear compared to another Ear-Symptoms of

Jealousy respecting Eyes, Wigs, and Shoes-

My Uncle's distressed Situation, being gored by

the Horns of Bacchus.........

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