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. 1744 edition. Excerpt: ... Reason I alter'd the Circumstance in my Version. 'Tis in the Latin, Senex martuus (a dead old Man) which, join'd to the Context, has very much the air of a Bull. But we must suppose this Expreflion as us'd by the Antients, to signisy a Man, who, being dead as to our upper World, his Soul was withdrawn to the infernal Regions. otherwise, we should be apt to recollect that Passage in the Re/zearstzl, where Smith asking Mr. Bayei, " How all his dead Men could go off P ' Baje: replies: " Go off l why, as they come on; upon their " Legs: ---How should they go off. Why, do you think the ' People don'c know they are not dead i " I 'Tis observ'd, that no Mention is made of this old Man in any of the antient Authors, neither of the Ass-tnan or Ass, carrying Wood. I Rapbael, in his zgth Design, does not follow this Description; he representing the old Man kneeling on one Knee, and not with Hands uplikted, but holding r a Staff. 5 The Original is, il/icita" n-pietate, " unlawsul or sorbidden 5' Compaflion." _ M 'Tis observ'd, that These may be supposfl to be the fatal Sisters, who yet are said to spin, not to weave, the Thread of Man's Life. Rap ael, in his Dessgn (N0. 26.) has not repre shlted them spinnmg. ' 2. also gloomy Palace, lies a terrible triple-headed Dog I, Of a monstrous Size, whose barking is like Thunder-, and who keeps eternal Watch before Plutffls Ghost-inhabited Palace ll z for ever terrifying the Shades, tho' he cannot hurt them. Now throw but one of thy Cakes to this Dog, and he'll be pacified, and let thee go forward. Thou then wilt have immediate Access to Proshrpine, who, receiving thee in a courteous and friendly Manner, will intreat thee to the barking Dog Cerberus, by throwing him i..."
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