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John Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot (1667-1735) was a Scottish physician and an eminent writer and literary man of the age of Queen Anne and her two successors. He was born in Kincardineshire, the friend of Swift and Pope and other lights of the time, much esteemed by them for his wit and kind-heartedness, joint-author with Swift, it is thought, of the "Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus" and the "History of John Bull". His History of John Bull was published in 1712. It was a satirical work which is the origin of John Bull as the personification of the typical Englishman.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • Law is a bottomless pit.
- pamphlet title

Jonathan Swift

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