Just as "the King never dies" so too is the "power of thinking, self-moving, and governing the whole machine, [...] communicated from every particle to its immediate successor; who as soon as he is gone, immediately takes upon him the government, which still preserves the unity of the whole system."
Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus
At least 16 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1741, 1742, 1752, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1761, 1764, 1766, 1767, 1768, 1772, 1774, 1778, 1779, 1789). Republished in the <u>Works</u> of Pope and of Swift.<br>
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See <u>Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus. By Mr. Pope</u> (Dublin: Printed by and for George Faulkner, 1741). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809278.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;
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Reading <u>Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus</u> (London: Hesperus Press, 2002). [From which much of my text was originally transcribed.]