ΤΗΣ

PURSUITS OF LITERATURE;

Α

SATIRICAL POEM

IN DIALOGUE.

WITH NOTES:

Εκλαγξαν δ' αρ' οϊστοι απ' ωμων χωομενοιο,
Αυτε κινηθεντος· ὁ δ ̓ ηΐε Νυκτι εοικως.
Εζετ' επειτ' απανευθε νεων, μετα τον έηκε,
Δείνη δε κλαγγή γενετ' αργύρεοιο βιοιο.

Ουρας μεν πρωτον επωχετο, και ΚΥΝΑΣ αργες,
Αυταρ επειτ' ΑΥΤΟΙΣΙ βελος εχεπευκες αφιείς
Βαλλ' αίει δε πυραι νεκυων καίοντο θαμειαι.

Hom. Il. L.

PART THE THIRD.

THE THIRD EDITION REVISED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. BECKET, No. 81, PALL MALL,

1797.

MD

ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE THIRD PART(a)

OF THE

PURSUITS OF LITERATURE.

Ταυτα πανθ ̓ ὑπερ Υμων, ὑπερ της Αληθείας, ύπερ της

μετερας Πολιτείας, και των Νόμων, και της Σωτηρίας, και

της Ευσεβείας, και της Δόξης, και της Ελευθερίας, ὑπερ των

κοινῆ
Συμφεροντων, ΑΚΡΙΒΟΛΟΓΟΥΜΑΙ ΚΑΙ

ΔΙΕΞΕΡΧΟΜΑΙ.*

I PRESENT the Third Part of this Poem to the public,

at the same time that I offer the Second: though I had
intended to delay it. But some subjects are of an im-
portance serious and urgent, not to be deferred. Where-
ver the freedom of the press exists, (and WITH US may
that freedom be perpetual!) I must assert that, LITERA-
TURE, well or ill conducted, IS THE GREAT ENGINE by
which, I am fully perfuaded, all civilized states must ulti-
mately be fupported or overthrown.

the mass

It is not enough to say, a book is bulky or voluminous,

and therefore can have no effect upon

of the peo-

ple, because that opinion is not true. Such a book can

not only be abridged and dispersed abroad, but a man like

a 2

(a) First printed in MAY 1796.

• Demosthenes.

Thomas