THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PAUL PLAINTIVE, Esq. An Author. COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, AND INTERSPERSED WITH SPECIMENS OF HIS GENIUS, IN PROSE AND POETRY. BY MARTIN GRIBALDUS SWAMMERDAM, (HIS NEPHEW AND EXECUTor.) "The chief glory of every people arises from its authors." VOL. II. JOHNSON. LONDON: Printed by W. Flint, Old Bailey, FOR SHERWOOD, NEELY, AND JONES, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1811. 249.5.474. THE Death often comes unexpected and generally unasked-A slow, sudden death dreadful, WHAT is there in life more uncertain than life? Nothing, say the philoso- phers and moralists of every age. "All men," observes Young, "think all men mortal but themselves;" and Cowley, with some quaintness, calls life, the |