Extracts from the Gazette, 1732
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 1, 1732.

[Advertisement] There is now in the Press, and for the universal Benefit of Mankind will speedily be published, a most curious Collection of Essays, to wit,

1. An Essay upon High Nonsense, and Low Nonsense.

2. An Essay upon the Nonsense of the Pulpit; under which Title is included, A Dissertation upon mysterious and incomprehensible Nonsense, with some Allusions to the Fathers; the whole supported by the most modern Authorities, taken from the venerable Dean Swift, and other Reverend Divines of the Age.

3. An Essay upon the Nonsense of the Bar; under which Title is included, by way of Digression, a most learned Dissertation upon the following Words in Dyer, fol. 218. Un de l’Jury a mange un Pere, & boir un haust de Cervois; proving beyond Contradiction, that whereas it is vulgarly rendered into English, One of the Jury had eat a Pear, and drunk a Draught of Ale; it ought to be rendered, One of the Jury had eat up a Father, and drank a Draught of Hartshorn. Together with some little Animadversions upon Matter dehors, and the inimitable Beauties of an &c. Dedicated to the most incomprehensible Alexander Conundrum, Esq; Barrister at Law.

For Thee I dim these Eyes, and stuff this Head,

With all such Reading as was never read;

For Thee explain a Thing till all Men doubt it,

And write about it, Goddess, and about it. Dunciad.

By Timothy Scrubb, Gent. who formerly lived in the Cupola of St. Paul’s.

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