Miscellanies Author:Jonathan Swift Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [74] WONDER Of all the WONDERS, That ever the Wo Rle wonder'd at For all Perfons of Quality and Others. NE w l Y arriv'd at this City of Dublin... more » the famous Artift Jobn Emanuel Seboitz, who to the great furprize and fatisfactton of all fpectators, 13 ready to do the following wonderful performances, the like beforenever feen in this Kingdom. He will heat a Bar of Iron red hot, and thruft it into a barrel of Gunpowder, before all the company, and yet it (hall not take fire. He lets any Gentleman charge a Blunderbufs, with the fame Gunpowder, and twelve Leaden Bullets, which Blunderbufs the faid Artiftdilcharges full in the face of the faid company, without the leaft hurt, the Bullets flicking in the wall behind them. He takes any Gentleman's own Swor-d, and runs it through the faid Gentleman's Body, fo that the point appears bloody at the back, to all the Specta- tors; then he takes out the Sword, wipes it clean and returns it to the owner, who recieves no manner of hurt. He takes a Pot of fealding Oyl, and throws it by great Ladles-full directly at the Ladies, without fpoil- ing their Cloaths or burning their Skins. . He takes any Perfon of Quality's Child from two years old to fix, and lets the child's own father or mother take a Pike in their hands; then the Artift takes the child in his arms and tofles it upon the point of the pike, where it flicks to the great fatisfaction of all Spectators; and is then taken off without fo much as a hole in his Coat. He mounts upon a Scaffold juft over the Spectators, and from thence throws down a great quantity of large Tiles and Stones, which fall like fo many Pillows, without fo much as difeompofing either Perukes or Head-drelTes. He takes any Perfon of Quality up to the faid Scaffold, which perfon pull...« less