Original t.p. reads: A dissertation upon genius: or, an attempt to shew, that the several instances of distinction, and degrees of superiority in the human genius are not, fundamentally, the result of nature, but the effect of acquisition. By William Sharpe, M.A., curate of Leaden Rooding, Essex. London, Printed for C. Bathurst, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-Street. MDCCLV.