ABSTRACT

From An Essay Towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule. To which is Added, an Analysis Of the Characters of An Humorist, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger de Coverly, and Don Quixote (1744). Corbyn Morris (d. 1779), who became commissioner of customs in 1763, was the author of numerous works on economics and statistics.