"The fellow with broken limbs justly deserves your alms for his impotent condition; but he that cannot use his own reason, is in a much worse state; for you see him in miserable circumstances, with his remedy at the same time in his own possession, if he would or could use it."
Tatler, No. 27
Over 50 entries in the ESTC (1709, 1710, 1711, 1712, 1713, 1716, 1720, 1723, 1728, 1733, 1737, 1743, 1747, 1749, 1750, 1751, 1752, 1754, 1759, 1764, 1772, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1785, 1786, 1789, 1794, 1795, 1797).<br>
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See <u>The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.</u> Dates of Publication: No. 1 (Tuesday, April 12, 1709.) through No. 271 (From Saturday December 30, to Tuesday January 2, 1710 [i.e. 1711]). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/P1919">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;</br>
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Collected in two volumes, and printed and sold by J. Morphew in 1710, 1711. Also collected and reprinted as <u>The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.</u><br>
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Consulting Donald Bond's edition of <u>The Tatler</u>, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987). Searching and pasting text from <u>The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq: Revised and Corrected by the Author</u> (London: Printed by John Nutt, and sold by John Morphew, 1712): &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004882582.0001.001">Link to Vol. 1</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004882582.0001.002">Vol. 2</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004882582.0001.003">Vol. 3</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004882582.0001.004">Vol. 4</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004882582.0001.005">Vol. 5</a>&gt;. Some text also from Project Gutenberg digitization of 1899 edition edited by George A. Aitken.