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ter, where it is express’d, but they heard not the voice," we may necessarily conceive, that they heard not an articulate voice, tho they heard a confused found :or, which comes to the same purpose, the original word. which in both the passages is translated Hear, signifies both simply to hear, and also fo to hear as to understand. The proper application of this twofold fense, to the fore-mention'd passages, easily reconciles their seeming difference.

ch Q. Tell me, most learned and polite afsembly, what is the killing and the fatal cause, that persevering love, and tendereft demonfinations only excite to more indifference the charming conqueror? say something that may melt his. frozen heart, and give fome ease to mine, of which he has the sole command??

:A. Oh charming fair! the fatal killing caufe of your misfortune, is that your choice has fall’n too much below your merit; -your conqueror would else. in foods of rapid joy fail swiftly to your call, whose wounding cloquence, and moving foft compliance might melt a breaft of feel, and itab, with tharpeft love, a heart of adamant.

Q. What is the reason that those that are born deaf, are also dumb?

4. Speech is from imitation, but the deaf perfon is deprived of the means thereof, Does

e Gentlemen, pray give me your folution of the following question: "How, fince' all religions differ from each other, a man may be satisfied which is the truest,' seeing they all pretend to have the only incorrupt laws of God, and equally boast of their martyrs and confessors? : A. Let reason guide your choice, and faith support your pra&ice, you'll then with eafe discover the miftaken principles of contending churches, and fix your hopes upon the unshaken basis of our protestant relius gion, whence you may view with a charitable pidy, the zealous follies of the blinded world, and pray, not! for the ruin, but conversion of your un-numbred E

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Q. Gentlemen, you are defired to find a solution to the following question : whether a man may lawfully, having promis'd a woman marriage, go to bed so her before that marriage is celebrated ?

4. If the inclinations of our querist may be guess'd at by his question, 'will be a long time e'er we find an answer to his fatisfaction; for how is it possible that you

should LAWFULLY commit an action, which the fix'd decrees of God and man declarc UNLAWFUL? If you look upon marriage as a divine injunction, how can you, without a lin, destroy the very end of its institution ? If you believe it but à political ordination, yet even then you err, by breaking shamefully thro' the settled laws of your country: but as the institution of marriage is both divine and political,and as ancient as the world's creation, you will not only fin abominably against the laws of God and man, but give the woman, you pretend to love; an undeniable proof of a dissembled pafsion, the very monient you so bafely stoop to offer at a crime so mucla below the practice of a christian, and fo inconfiftent with that respect the softer sex may justly claini, from one who makes bis addresses under the name of GentlemAN..

Q. of what substance or matter is lime composed, and why is it affected with such a vehement calidity, when water is pour'd thereon?

4. Lime is made of ordinary quarry-stones, by violent calcination in a close kiln or furnace for

many days; and 'tis probable that in such an operation fope fiery particles may be lodg'd in it, which, upon the effufion of water, being forc'd out of their receptacles, suddenly break forth in crouds, and cause that intense heat and smoke.

Q, Gentlemen, I desire to know from whence proceeds thought ; my opinion is, 'tis from the heart, but being contradicted by a learned man, iris, you must decide the cour, troversy?

A. That thought is the peculiar property of the foul, we think too plain to require any proof. The beart being no otherwise concern'd, than as an organ

proper to receive the impressions made upon it by the fenfes, which impressions are convey'd from thence, by means of the nerves, to the soul, which alone bas the power to approve or reject those ideas which are pleasing or disagreeable, and therefore must be the Fountain of all thought.

Q. Gentlemen, I am often troubled with a pain occasion d by the palpitation of the heart: I assure you it proceeds not from love, nor from any fright or accident whatfoever ; therefore I desire to know by Apollo the reafon of this palpitation of the heart, and you will oblige yours,

Celia. A. The palpitation of the heart proceeds from an ill qualified blood, irritating the tender fibres of the heart to discharge the troublefome guefts of the ill particles of the blood, which are curable by proper medicines,

Q. Whether by the two lovers in the Canticles, or Solomon's Song, were originally design’d Solomon and Pharaoh's daughter,' or Chrift and bis Church?

A. 'Tis the opinion of the most learned and best divines, that the Canticles were dictated by the Spirit of God, and the two lovers in that divine poem, fhewn to the world as an example of that passionate concern and tenderness which were to be between Chrift and his Church. Tho' the ancient as well as modern pretenders to wit have béen fond of giving it another turn, Q. Why is one fo chill

, even to Shaking, as in an ague, after eating ? your folution will obligé your humble fer

Iris. A. The digestive faculty of the stomach attracts fo much heat to it for concoction of the food, that the rest of the body for a while is left without fufficient to invigorate the tendons, donc. to perform their of fices; but is a sign of healthful conftitution.

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Gentlemen, Pardon the following lines, which come

to require a reason for your writing no verses on the gih of March, being the day on which the Queen

was proclaim'd. Q.

TOW can APOLLO prize the British ise,

And not afford its joys one pleasing smile?
How can we hope he'll long with us remain,
Who honour'd not that Day with one poor strain,
That

gave our EARTH a Heav'n, in mighty Anna's

reign? A. 'Tis bravely spoke, 'tis great and honest too, Done as a loyal BRITAIN ought to do. But, ab! tho® ONCE I ruld the sun ALONE,

2 ONE glorious moment cast me from my throne, Shock'd at a Rising light, far brighter than my own,

Q. Sons of Apollo, you I ask;
For only you can tell,
Why women in their love and hate
Do men so far excel?

A. Reason's the cause of what you ask,
In which the men excel ;
In women the defect of that
Makes passion oft rebel.

Q. Tell us, Apolo's fons, when forf begun
A custom that's as old as Thetis fon ;
Which to this day the learned sages keep,
To which we owe our tears, whene'er we weep?
Why, when poor we have done amiss at school,
For want of fome defensive grammar-rule,
The krotty birch must make our tails to smart ?
Or who for punishment did forft affign that part?

Nom pray be grave, and gives a civil reason,
For jeering now would be but out of seafon;
Or else we warn you, left you move our cholers,
You'll find it dangerous, perhaps, to banter scholars.

A. Now ten to one, this knotty question came
From Westminster, that school of Hogging fame;
And as those sparks are fav’rites of Apollo,
A speedy answer shall their query follow.
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No force could pierce the skin that did environ
The sturdy pupil of the peevish Chiron,
Who finding crab-tree cudgel not prevail,
Bound up a tingling rod, and firkd his tail.
The glowing smart, as innocent as new,
Made the young hero skip, like one of you ;
And, since those ancient days, the flogging art
Has still been fatal to the fleshy part.

Now, Sirs, we think we've answer'd you like scholars,
And humbly hope we shall not move your cholers,
Tho', if we do, what danger pray can follow?
Were Busby's self alive, be durdt not whip Apollo.

Q. A pox upon your whining rhimes;
Such soft things ne'er will please the times;
Tho you think Chloris heav'nly fair,
To us she may appear a bear ;
And if by you her darts are felt,
Muft we diffolve, because you melt ?
Give us an amour new and odd is,
of fome plain wench, and not a Goddess,
Without an altar, Shrine or dart,
All perfect nature without art ;
And then you will for ever win us,
To read you 's if the devil were in us.

A. Since we're set up for cooks, a fallet
We must prepare for ev'ry palate;
And not our delicacies waste
On those who have another taste:
We'll give you then what new and odd is,
The weach you'll scarce believe a Goddess.

Cellida and Cleon.
. Cle. TF being rare so much augments the price,
Cel. My Cleon needs must have a stock of wit,

Since none did ever know him spend it yet:
But now a miser's feast we may expect;

Then name the rarities you would reflect.
Cle. You're treble when you sing, who can relate ?

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