The Modern Joe Miller His Jest Book

Author : Joe Miller
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230095318
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Joe Miller's Jest Book written by Joe Miller and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ..."It is no matter," replied the author, "print any part thou pleaseth first." Many are the speeches, and the sermons, and the treatises, and the poems, and the volumes, which are like Benjamin Lay's book; the head might serve for the tail, and the tail for the body, and the body for the head, either end for the middle, and the middle for either end; nay, if you could turn them inside out, like a polypus or a glove, they would be no worse for the operation.--The Doctor. 375. OKGAN OF DRUNKENNESS. Spurzheim wa3 lecturing on phrenology. "What is to be conceived the organ of drunkenness f" said the professor. "The barrel organ," interrupted Bannister. 376. LITERAL RESPECT. Cicero said of a man who had ploughed up the ground in which his father was buried, Hoc est vere colere monumentum patris--This is really cultivating one's father's memory. 377. MISTAKE CORRECTED. The Rev. Sidney Smith, preaching a charity sermon, frequently repeated the assertion, that of all nations Englishmen were most distinguished for generosity and the love of their species. The collection happened to be inferior to his expectations, and he said, that he had evidently made a great mistake, for that his expression should have been, that they were distinguished for the love of their specie. 378. A DAY IN JENNY LIND's LIFE.--N. P. WILLIS. Many suppose that Jenny Lind's tour in America was one of uninterrupted pleasure and profit; but we opine they will change their opinion when they read the following report of the experience of a single day in New York--the day previous to her leaving that city, and after she had given away in charity to thousands of deserving objects no less than thirty thousand dollars. But while all these...