"Now supposing those stockings of Sir John's endued with some degree or consciousness at every particular darning, they would have been sensible that they were the same individual pair of stockings both before and after the darning; and this sensation would have continued in them through all the succession of darnings; and yet, after the last of all, there was not perhaps one thread left of the first pair of stockings, but they were grown to be silk stockings, as was said before."
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.]