The Present State of Wit (1711)

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    * * * * * _Quicquid agunt Homines, Votum, Timor, Ira, Voluptas, Gaudia, Discursus, nostri est Farrago, Libelli. _ Juven.
--_Quis enim Virtutem amplectitur ipsam?_ Id.
    * * * * * _LONDON_, Printed for _W. Turner_, at _Lincolns-Inn Back-Gate_; _R. Basset_ in_Fleetstreet_; and _J. Chantry_, without _Temple Bar_, 1702 INTRODUCTION Abel Boyer, a Huguenot who settled in London in 1689, devoted himself tolanguage, history, and literature. As a linguist, he tutored AllenBathurst and the Duke of
...Gloucester in French, prepared a textbook forEnglish students of French, compiled a French and English dictionary, and endeavored to promote a better understanding between France andEngland by translating works of each nation into the language of theother. As a historian, he recorded the principal events of Englishnational life from 1688 to 1729. As a literary figure, he wrote a playthat was approved by Dryden and published two collections of characters.
Coming in on the great flood of character books which reached its crestin the seventeenth century, Boyer's collections were part of the finalsurge before the character was taken over by Steele and handed on to thenovelists.


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