title: Grammar and Grace: Reformations of Aquinas and Wittgenstein
author: Jeffrey Stout
description: It is easy to read with little academic jargon or pedantic footnotes and there is a helpful glossary of terms. The title and sub-title are well chosen. As Saint Paul told the Corinthians, there are varieties of gifts but the same spirit, varieties of services but the same Lord, varieties of activities but the same God who activates all of them in everyone. With this in mind, those involved in, or training for, any kind of ministry should find it a useful resource. David Bunch, <i>Quarterly Review of the Community of the Resurrection</i>, N413, 2006.
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  # The Present State of Wit (1711)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### John Gay
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  
  
  
  THE PRESENT STATE of WIT, &c.
  
  
  THE English Theophrastus: OR, THE Manners of the Age.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  THE MANNERS Of the AGE.
  
  
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      The Present State of Wit (1711)
  
  
  In A Letter To A Friend In The Country
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by David Starner, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed
  
  
  Proofreading Team.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Series One:
  
  
  _Essays on Wit_
  
  
  No. 3
  
  
  John Gay, _The Present State of Wit_ (1711)
  
  
  With an Introduction by
  
  
  Donald F. Bond
  
  
  and
  
  
  a Bibliographical Note
  
  
  and
  
  
  Excerpts from
  
  
  _The English Theophrastus: or the Manners of the Age_ (1702)
  
  
  With an Introduction by
  
  
  W. Earl Britton
  
  
  The Augustan Reprint Society
  
  
  May, 1947
  
  
  _Price_ : 75c
  
  
  
  
  
  GENERAL EDITORS: _Richard C. Boys_ , University of Michigan, Ann
  
  
  Arbor; _Edward N. Hooker_ , _H.T. Swedenberg, Jr._ , U