to understand, that soon after the Reformation the Priests Wives were all _Abigail_'s. _Collier_'s Dialogues serve two principal Ends, the one to carry on an Argument the more freely and loosely; and the other, which is not the least, to give himself a fat Figure in his own Picture, for he himself is the Man who has always the best of the Dispute. _Well, I can't stand the Force of your Argument: You are smart, you have brought your self well off._ Thus he conquers his _Alphius_, and compels him _to own, That the Priests are an independant State_; and thus Boys build Houses of Cards to blow them down when they have done. What a Parcel of Flowers and Graces might one pick up in his Writings, if it was more _a propos_, such as _Slender Difficulty_, _Lean Temper_, _touchy Point_, _Cheek by Joule_, _to con over_, _to be Uppish_, _Intents and Purposes_, _to glitter upon the Senses_, _Enrichments_, _renverse_, _Deconcert_, _bigger Entertainment of the Soul_, _don't_, _on't_, _can't_, _won't_, _'tis_, _it's_, _at's_, and the frequent Use of Proverbs. _Where there's Life there's Hope. One Swallow makes no Summer_, &c. The Use of Proverbs is so far from giving Disgust in common Conversation, especially in the Country, that 'tis look'd upon to be Wit as well as Mimickry, Buffoonry, Pun, Quibble, _&c._ and you would be star'd at if you should object against either of them as the effect of Ignorance or Folly. The _Spectator_ takes Notice that Puns made a considerable Figure on the Banks of _Cam_, and Proverbs must needs do no less on the Banks of _Isis_, when so great a Scholar as _Edward Llwyd_ set the Example, two in one Paragraph. Rome _was not built in a Day. Better late than never._