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^ The Vicar of WakeheM.
than learned, and began to think he deipised
all human docfrines as dross., Yet this no
way. leslened him in my eReern; for I had sor
some time begun privately to harbour iuch an
opinion myseif. I therefore took occalion to
observe, that the world in general began to
be blameably indifserent as to doch'inai mat^
ters, and followed human {peculations too
much. — „Ay, Sir/' replied he, as if he
had relerved all his learning to that moment,
s, Ay, Sir, the world is in its dotage, and yet
,, the cosinogony or creation os the world has
„ puzzled philasophers os all ages. What a
„ mediy of opinions have they not broached
„ upon the creation of the world? Sanconia-
„ thou, Manetho, Eerosus, and Ocellus Lu-
„ canus, have ail attempted it in vain. The
„ latter has theie words, A n a r c h o n a r a
,, kai atelutaion to pan, which imply
„ that all things have neither beginning nor
3, end. Manetho alfo , who lived about the
3, time of Nebuchadon-Ader, Alter being a
3, Syriac word usualiy applied as a sirname to
„ the kings of that country , as Teglat bhaeb
3, Aster, Nabon-Asier, he, I say, formed
,, a conjeTure equally absurd; for as we usual-
3, ly iay, ek to bibiion kubemetes,
„ which implies that books will never teach
,, the world; sb be attempted to invedigate.
„ — But, Sir, I aik pardon, 1am Braying
„ from the question." — That he actually
was; nor could I for my life see how the
creation os the world had any thing to do
with the business I was talking of; but it was
iuhicient to shew me that he was a matt of
letters?
than learned, and began to think he deipised
all human docfrines as dross., Yet this no
way. leslened him in my eReern; for I had sor
some time begun privately to harbour iuch an
opinion myseif. I therefore took occalion to
observe, that the world in general began to
be blameably indifserent as to doch'inai mat^
ters, and followed human {peculations too
much. — „Ay, Sir/' replied he, as if he
had relerved all his learning to that moment,
s, Ay, Sir, the world is in its dotage, and yet
,, the cosinogony or creation os the world has
„ puzzled philasophers os all ages. What a
„ mediy of opinions have they not broached
„ upon the creation of the world? Sanconia-
„ thou, Manetho, Eerosus, and Ocellus Lu-
„ canus, have ail attempted it in vain. The
„ latter has theie words, A n a r c h o n a r a
,, kai atelutaion to pan, which imply
„ that all things have neither beginning nor
3, end. Manetho alfo , who lived about the
3, time of Nebuchadon-Ader, Alter being a
3, Syriac word usualiy applied as a sirname to
„ the kings of that country , as Teglat bhaeb
3, Aster, Nabon-Asier, he, I say, formed
,, a conjeTure equally absurd; for as we usual-
3, ly iay, ek to bibiion kubemetes,
„ which implies that books will never teach
,, the world; sb be attempted to invedigate.
„ — But, Sir, I aik pardon, 1am Braying
„ from the question." — That he actually
was; nor could I for my life see how the
creation os the world had any thing to do
with the business I was talking of; but it was
iuhicient to shew me that he was a matt of
letters?