Dr SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Reading edition
SELECTED FROM HIS WORKS.
Nihil rerum mortalium tam instabile ac fluxum est, quam fama—Tacitus.
The diversion of baiting an Author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teizing other animals because for the most part HE comes voluntarily to the stake. Rambler, No. 176.