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 Brighton I am at the lake of Killarney;" "very well. Thirdly, metaphysics.—How comes your treatise on?" "I have already proved, that Locke, Hutchinson, Berkeley, Hume, and Reid, are blockheads, and I am now demonstrating, that nobody knows any of the matter but myself." "Very well. Fourthly, divinity. How are you proceeding against Horseley and Priestley?" "Demonstrating that both know nothing about the matter, and as before, that no one knows any thing about the subject but myself." "Fifthly, mathematics. How goes your essay upon the Cycloid?" "It's not quite so far advanced, really," "I must begin another hand," said Nincompoop. "Sixthly, Ethics. What are you doing against Paley?" "I demonstrate him to be a fool, and myself only thoroughly to understand the subject; but history is my sheet an