F.] This party was one of those persons whom they call Philosophers.

He was twins, being born simultaneously in two different houses in the city of Boston.

These houses remain unto this day, and have signs upon them worded in accordance with the facts.

The signs are considered well enough to have, though not necessary, because the inhabitants point out the two birthplaces to the stranger anyhow, and sometimes as often as several times in the same day.

The subject of this memoir was of a vicious disposition, and early prostituted his talents to the invention of maxims and aphorisms calculated to inflict suffering upon the rising generation of all subsequent ages.