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Barrow's first volume, and fourteenth sermon, 'Against foolish Talking and Jesting. My old acquaintance, the late Corbyn Morris, in his ingenious Essay on Wit, Humour, and Ridicule, calls it 'a profuse description of Wit; but I do not see how it could be curtailed, without leaving out some good circumstance of discrimination.
Hume wrote: 'Pray do you not think that a proper dedication may atone for what is objectionable in my Dialogues'! I am become much of my friend Corbyn Morrice's mind, who says that he writes all his books for the sake of the dedications. J. H. Burton's Hume, ii. 147. The King of Prussia, Frederick the Great, was George I.'s grandson.
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