The one-eyed veteran, Legardeur de St. Pierre, the commander of Fort Le Boeuf, asked Washington, in rich diplomatic sarcasm, to descend to the particularization of facts, and the lithe figure disappeared behind the snows of the mountains only to come again across the mountains in the springtime with sterner questioning.
"The French in the Heart of America"
John Finley
For the Discourse concerning Ridicule and Irony is largely a particularization, a crude but powerful reworking of Shaftesbury's Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour.
"A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729)"
Anthony Collins