Excerpt from British Essayists, Vol. 24 of 45: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical, and Critical I had the misfortune, some time ago, to be in company where a gentleman, who has the honour to be a principal speaker at a disputing society of the first class. Was expected. Till this person came in, the conversation was carried on with the cheer ful easy negligence of sensible good -humour; but we soon discovered that his discourse was a perpet ual effort to betray the company into attempts to prove self-evident propositions; a practice in which he seems to have followed the example of that deep philosopher, who denied motion, 'because, ' as he said, 'a body must move either where it is, or where it is not; and both suppositions are equally absurd. 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.