--And pray who was _Tickletoby's_ mare? --'tis just as discreditable and unscholarlike a question, Sir, as to have asked what year (_ab. urb. con._) the second Punic war broke out. --Who was _Tickletoby's_ mare? ----Read, read, read, read, my unlearned reader! read--or by the knowledge of the great saint _Paraleipomenon_ --I tell you before-hand, you had better throw down the book at once; for without _much reading_, by which your reverence knows I mean _much knowledge_, you will no more be able to penetrate the moral of the next marbled page (motly emblem of my work!) than the world with all its sagacity has been able to unravel the many opinions, transactions, and truths which still lie mystically hid under the dark veil of the black one.
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- And pray who was Tickletoby's mare?
'Tis as unscholarlike a question, Sir, as to have asked what year the second Punic war broke out. Read, read, read, my unlearned reader! - or by the knowledge of the great saint Paraleipomenon, you had better throw down this book at once; for without much reading and knowledge, you will no more be able to penetrate the moral of the next marbled page (motley emblem of my work!) than the world with all its wisdom has been able to unravel the many truths which still lie mystically hid under the dark veil of the black one.