A philosophical dialogue concerning decency. To which is added a critical and historical dissertation on places of retirement for necessary occasions, together with an account of the vessels and utensils in use amongst the ancients, being a lecture read before a society of learned antiquaries / By the author of the Dissertation on barley wine [i.e. S. Rolleston].

  • Buckler, Benjamin, 1718-1780
Date:
1751
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Credit: A philosophical dialogue concerning decency. To which is added a critical and historical dissertation on places of retirement for necessary occasions, together with an account of the vessels and utensils in use amongst the ancients, being a lecture read before a society of learned antiquaries / By the author of the Dissertation on barley wine [i.e. S. Rolleston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * D I A L O G U E CONCERNING DECENCY. PHiloprepon and Eutrapelus, two Gentlemen of very good fenfe and a great deal of learning came laft May to my houfe in the country to fpend ten or twelve days with me. One evening we went for a walk to pafs a« way a couple of hours before Supper. As we were returning, and about two miles from my houfe I was violently feiz’d upon an open down, where there is a publick road, with the gripes attended with a neceffity of going to ftool. Oh thefe horrid gripes! (faid I) they plague me every day of my life. I wifh I was now at home; that I might eafe myfelf in the neat apart¬ ment I have lately made in my garden j for I hate to do fuch things in publick, and I think, Philoprepon, I have heard you fay that you cannot even make water if you think any one looks upon you—Very modeft indeed! (fays Eutrapelus) furely. Gen¬ tlemen, the neceffities of nature muft be attended to; and nature requires us to empty, as well as it does to fill. And therefore I do not fee why we fhould give ourfelves any uneafinefs, when we are feen to do one, more than when we are feen to do the A 2 other t