RACE. G of our paper, finds more faults than were made in the Prologue to our undertaking, and invents an extraordinary fine latin word for WHIG and TORY; we could do no lefs in respect to the uncommon ingenuity of his performance, than present him with a touch of our own poetry in gratitude to his monitory quotation out of Ho Reat are the glories we by vict'ry gain, Where equal force can vig'rous war maintain, Were but thy wit impenetrable steel, And the mean conquest fcandalize our fame. SENSĘ. 1 Q. APOLLO's fons, I love a charming creature, who, what she wants in money, makes up in feature, She fings like an Angel, which makes me for to love her, And think none that walks on two legs above her i My mother says, Cupid has my heart betray'do; " And won't have me to marry a cook-maid: A prentice to a tallow-chandler I am bound, A. Most witty Sir, Apollo bids you marry,.. To To hate her for her place, wou'd be the Devil, 1 To the BRITISH APOLLO. I humbly beg your speedy advice to the dif- Strephon, To the 'ingenious Strephon. Not C2 } Not thus ingloriously to waste bis fame, .; On Fear... Ambas Let my warm vows those icy thoughts remove ; , and merit all confpire, F P To a young Lady, who affected much Satyr in her con verfation. No húsband in a witey wife is blett; Thus Thus for a while sharp fine edg'd razors please, Q. I am no sharper, nor have I any inclination to be one; yet for my own fatisfaction, I would gladly be able to align the proportion of the odds that may happen in games depending on chance. To be particular, a friend of mine and I often play at picquet, we have an equal skill at it; be that gets the two first fet's wins the fake. Nos my friend, when he happens to get the firft fet, lays me two zo one that he is up before me: but I am a little diffident of my felf; I have some fmattering of numbers, and can do as far as the Rule of Three, yet can't see how to apply my avisbmetick to the folution of this case; therefore you will oblige me in: determining whether the odds of two to me is juft, and if not, what it is, and the reason, if not too intricate. 4. Your friend is certainly in the right, if playing with advantage is to be in the right; the true propor, tion is three to one, which to demonstrate: he sup: pofes, asta pripciple naturally known, that if I have an equal chance to get 10 h. or 61, my expectation is worth 8.1. that is half the sum of 10 and 6, and so in any other case. To apply this, fuppose the whole ftake between you and your friend to be 4 crown pieces;. when he has got the first fer, then he has an equal chance for the 4, or for 2, ( for if he loses the next set, then you are both upon an equal foot) therefore his expectation is worth 3 crown pieces, and if you would give him fome confideration for the advantage of getting the firft set, and leave off playing, upon mutual agreement, you must give him 3 out of 4, and take but í for your self, but if you play on, then let him lay down again the 3 he has taken up and lay down i your felf, which will bring it exactly. to the odds of 3 to 1. C 3 Q. 'Tis common for those who write of the long lives of the Patriarchs, to make this ono principal reason of that difpenfation, viz. that the word of God was not yet configned to writing-And again, they who inform us why the word of God was no sooner written, say, that the long lives of the Patriarchs rendred it unnecessary.. That they jhould be occasions of one another, is ridiculous and absurd, and get many instances there are of each? A. That two things should be reciprocally the oce cafions of one another is undoubtedly a very great absurdity, for that were to make the same thing both cáufe and effect, which is impossible, and to argue in à circle. But there are several arguments which seem circular, and yet are not really fo; the addition of a circumstance, tho' not observable at first view, may entirely alter the nature of the position, as the change of a quality in naturals may conftitute a new species, To apply this to the present case; to say that the word of God was no sooner committed to writing, because the longævity of the Patriarchs made it unnecessary, is, strictly speaking, to suppose fome foreign cause of that longævity, but if when locally ro duc'd to a close way of arguing, the asserters of this opinion say, that God's word was no sooner written, because God design’d the longævity; of the Patriarchs to supply that defect, we cannot but allow, that the Jongævity of the Patriarchs is fpecifically distinct from the determination of that longævity to a certain end; for tho?.longævity be converfant in both, yet in onç it is the object, in the other the subject. And thus, Sir, we hope we have squar'd the circle. 2. Gentlemen, having oblig'd' the world with an ace count of inconstancy, I desire you will tell us how we may distinguish between a real pasion and a feign'd one ? and it will oblige Oliva. A. Madam, the society will with all chearfulness attempt your satisfaction, if you have the courage to Itand the shock of it ; for it is with all the regret i :imaginable when we advise a Lady to part with any thing so dear to her as vanity and affectation ; but 'tis abfos |