Excerpt from The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 6 Polite letters never loft more than in the defeat of this feheme, in which, each ofthis illnfliious triumvirate would have found exer cife for his own pcculiar talent; belides confiant employment for that they all had in common. Dr. Arbuthnot was {killed in every thing which irlared to fciente; Mr. Pepe was a matter in the fine arts; and Dr. Wft excelled in the'knowledge of the world wit (hey had all in equal meafme; and this fo large, as no age perhaps ever produc 3d three men to whom nature had more boumiftllly be flowed it, or art brought it to higher perfeftion. Warburton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.