I hate set dissertations----and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your reader's conception--when in all likelihood, if you had looked about, you might have seen something standing, or hanging up, which would have cleared the point at once-- "for what hindrance, hurt, or harm doth the laudable desire of knowledge bring to any man, if even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a stool, a winter-mittain, a truckle for a pully, the lid of a goldsmith's crucible, an oil bottle, an old slipper, or a cane chair?" --I am this moment sitting upon one. Will you give me leave to illustrate this affair of wit and judgment, by the two knobs on the top of the back of it? --they are fastened on, you see, with two pegs stuck slightly into two gimlet-holes, and will place what I have to say in so clear a light, as to let you see through the drift and meaning of my whole preface, as plainly as if every point and particle of it was made up of sun-beams.
I enter now directly upon the point.
--Here stands _wit_--and there stands _judgment_, close beside it, just like the two knobs I'm speaking of, upon the back of this self-same chair on which I am sitting.
--You see, they are the highest and most ornamental parts of its _frame_--as wit and judgment are of _ours_--and like them too, indubitably both made and fitted to go together, in order, as we say in all such cases of duplicated embellishments--------_to answer one another_.

I hate set dissertations - and 'tis one of the silliest things in 'em, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opaque words betwixt your own and your reader's idea - when in all likelihood, if you had looked about, you might have seen something which would have cleared the point at once.
"For what harm doth the desire of knowledge bring to any man, if even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a stool, an oil bottle, an old slipper, or a cane chair?" - I am this moment sitting upon one. Will you let me illustrate this affair of wit and judgment, by the two knobs on the back of it? They are fastened on, you see, with two pegs stuck into two holes, and will place what I have to say in so clear a light, as to let you see the meaning of my whole preface, as plainly as if it was made of sun-beams.
I enter now directly upon the point.
Here stands wit and there stands judgment beside it, just like the two knobs I'm speaking of, upon the back of this same chair.
You see, they are the highest and most ornamental parts of its frame - as wit and judgment are of ours; and are made to go together, in order - as we say in such cases of embellishment - to 'answer one another'.
