“When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood.” WellsHonorSimplicityAncientGreekPuritySincerityRhetoricComposingIlliterateForumsIncumbentsNeighbourhoodsMetropolisDictionNativityAspersion Book:The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Source: The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
“The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.” LittlesTogetherInstitutionsAncientFatsAlasDumplingsLentils Author:John Arbuthnot
