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and Byworth, Printers, Johnson's Court, Fleet Street.

THE

LOOKER-ON:

A

PERIODICAL PAPER.

BY THE

REV. SIMON OLIVE-BRANCH, A. M.

N° 51-72.

Lift of the
"Beddes Favily

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CONTENTS.

No.

VOL. XLIII.

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51. SOLEMN Synod of females---State of the fe-
male world. Miranda's praise ---Various
letters, petitions, &c. read---Court of the
Bona Dea---Rights of Woman---Dialogue
between a mademoiselle and her mistress---
Juvenal charged with a libel---Decree of
the assembly---Pleasant story of the three
Furies
52. Subject of analogy continued---State of pro-
bation---Doctrine of fatalism

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53. Threatening letter to Simon Olive-branch, on his intended visit to the metropolis--His head as unsafe as the pope's---Denounced by a club of patriots---A new Allegro---Pleasures of the town 24 54. Story of the Athenian madman---The mad carpenter and the king of Bohemia---Simon Olive-branch enters the metropolis---His surprises--- Universal pregnancy -- Letter from madam Olive-branch---Naked bosoms ---Swelled necks---Advertisement thereon --- Conjuring friend --- Modern improvements---Proclamation of the female synod 32 55. Simon still in the capital---Catalogue of vulgar errors---Character of a polished man--

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Two characters from Mons. La Bruyere
---Vision of the Well of Truth

56. Sentiments on the spring--A London spring
---Epigram---A city spring, the season
Passage from baron Von

for salmon

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57. Sermon to a clerical congregation---Pulpit eloquence---Clerical fops

58. Hospitality---Curious list of the moral benefits wrought by good dinners---Story from Lonicerus, of the devil and a drunkard---Fable of gout and a flea

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59. The philosophy of the comfortable---Character of Demades- Greek and Roman ideas of comfort--English the only classics in the comfortable---Introduction and reception of Anacharsis

60. Translation---Specimen of a modern translation of Virgil

61. Same subject--- Difficulty and dignity of translation

62. Modern sensibility---Grown gentlemen and ladies taught sensibility on mathematical principles---Anecdote of a king of France ---Poem on sensibility---Poem on a sick infant

53. Thoughts on love---The hereditary complexion of the Olive-branch family---A mysterious pudding--- Mr. Isaac Ŏlivebranch's poetical receipt---Queen Elizabeth and lord Essex---Simon's mother not degenerate---The manner in which love operates on Simon himself---Love's concerns transacted on the Exchange---Clari

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