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The question, Whether the late act is confiftent with good policy? is the principal fubject of this pamphlet. But as the act is now palled, it is an useless inquiry; and time will foon acquaint us more perfectly with its advantages and difadvantages, than the best book that can be written. The matrimonial preceptor. 3 s. Payne. This is a collection of great variety of pieces that direct the choice of a husband or wife, and the conduct of both after marriage. Many of them are by precept, but more by example, in narratives both fictitious and true. The collection is judiciously made from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, Mufæum, Clariffa, Pliny's letters, Pope's letters, Manners, the dialogues and phi lofophy of the late Profeffor Fordyce, Plutarch's conjugal precepts, the Ramblers, by Mr Sam. Johnlon, and the writings of many other authors of the first clafs, ancient and modern. The ordinary of Newgate's account. 6d. The trial of Macdaniel, Berry, &c. 68. ! Cooper. 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[131.] The Centaur not fabulous; in five letters to a friend on the life in vogue. Millar and Dodfley. -The author has called this work, The Centaur not fabulous; because in men of pleasure, which are the fubje&t of it, the brute runs away with the man, and the ideal figure of the ancients is realized. The fundamental principle of this work is, That infidelity and voluptuousness reciprocally generate each other: the author therefore proceeds to fhew, that the infidel is irrational, and the voluptuary wretched; and has attempted, by properly adapted devotion, to assist their repentance. His letters, both on infidelity and pleasure, are principally addreffed to the paffions; and over thefe his thoughts, his images, and his language give him great power. Eloquence cannot be abridged like argument; the form cannot be changed without loling the fubftance; nor does a part when it is felected from the reft, bear the fame proportion to the whole. However, not entirely to disappoint the curiofity of the reader, the following extract is taken from his 3d letter. The deathbed of a profligate, fays the author, is the most natural and powerful antidote against the poifon of his example. I will therefore prefent to you the laft hours of a person of high birth and high fpirit, of great parts and strong paffions, every way accomplished, nor least in iniquity. His unkind treatment was the death of a moft amiable wife; and his great extravagance, in effect, difinherited his only child. The fad evening before his death I was with him. No one was there, but his physician, and an intimate whom he loved, and whom he had ruined. At my coming in, he said, "You, and the physician, are come too late. I have neither life, nor hope. You both aim at miracles. You would raise the dead." Heaven, I faid, was merciful. "Or I could not have been thus guilty. What has it not done to bless and to fave me? I have been too strong for Omnipotence! I pluck'd down ruin." I faid, The bleffed Redeemer→→→→ "Hold! hold! you wound me!-That is the rock on which I fplit-I deny'd his name." Refufing to hear any thing from me, or take any thing from the phyfician, he lay filent, as far as fudden darts of pain would permit, till the clock ftruck. Then with vehemence; "Oh, time! time! It is fit thou shouldst thus ftrike thy murderer to the heart.-How art thou fled for ever!--A month! Oh, for a single week! I afk not for years. Though an age were too little for the much I have to do.” On my faying, we could not do too much; that heaven was a bleffed place- "So much the worse. 'Tis loft! 'Tis loft! Heaven is to me the fevereft part of hell!" Soon after, I proposed prayer. 66 Pray you that can. I never prayed. I cannot pray.-Nor need I. Heaven is on my fide already. It clofes with my confcience. Its fevereft ftrokes but fecond my own." His friend being much touched, even to tears, at this, (who could forbear? I could not); with a most affectionate look, he faid, "Keep thofe tears for thyfelf. I have undone thee.-Doft weep for me? That's cruel. What can pain me more?" Here his friend, too much affected, would have left him. BOOK S. No, ftay. Thou still mayst hope; -therefore hear me. How madly have I talked? How madly haft thou listened, and believed? But look on my prefent state, as a full answer to thee, and to myself. This body is all weakness and pain; but my foul, as if stung up by torment to greater ftrength and fpirit, is full powerful to reafon; full mighty to fuffer. And that which thus triumphs within the jaws of mortality, is, doubt lefs, immortal. And as for a Deity, nothing lefs than an Almighty could inflict what I feel." I was about to congratulate this paffive, involuntary confeffor, on his afferting the two prime articles of his creed, extorted by the rack of na ture; when he thus, very paffionately, "No, no! let me speak on I have not long to speak. - My much-injur'd friend! my foul, as my body, lies in ruins; in fcattered fragments of broken thought. Remorfe for the past throws Worte dread of the my thought on the future future, ftrikes it back on the past. I turn, and Didft thou feel half the turn, and find no ray mountain that is on me, thou wouldst struggle with the martyr for his flake, and bless Heaven not an everlasting. for the flames. That flame; that is not an unquenchable fire.” How were we ftruck! yet, foon after, still more. With what an eye of diftraction, what a face of defpair, he cried out! My principles have poisoned my friend; my extravagance has beggared my boy; my unkindAnd is there an nefs has murdered my wife! other hell? ---- Oh! thou blafphemed, yet moff indulgent Lord God! hell itself is a refuge, if it hides me from thy frown " Soon after, is understanding failed. His terrified imagination uttered horrors not to be repeated, or ever forgot And ere the fun (which I hope has feen few like him) arofe, the gay, young, noble, ingenious, accomplished, and moit wretched Altamont expired. I S. Owen. LAW, PHILOSOPHY: The poor man's lawyer.. It is the opinion of this writer, that no man can be legally confined on an execution againit his body, obtained in any of the inferior courts; becaufe, by common law, neither land nor body is fubject to execution, but gods and flock only; and becaufe the ftatute-law hath given power against the body in execution, only to the courts of record, which include only the four courts at Westminster. It muft, however, be owned, that his reafoning upon the fur ject is not to clear as might be wifhed, and that his conclufion is in terms not only general, but ambiguous. "I must therefore conclude, fays he, that it is the effect of law, that man is to man as a god, Vol. xvii. and not as a wolf." But, however defective his reasoning, and whatever be the oracular obscurity of his conclufion, his book contains fome legal truths of great importance, that are not generally known; and among others, are the following. 1. No fees are due to any goaler from prisoners taken up by the conttable of the night, for they are the conftable's prisoners, and not the goaler's, till they have been committed by lawful process, or warrant. 2. No goaler has a right to put e. ven a felon in irons, till after conviction, except he has just cause to apprehend an escape from an attempt already made; because ironing a prifoner is punishing him, and he is not fent to prifon to be punished, but only to be safely kept. 3. If a man be fo ftrictly confined that he dies, it is murder in the goaler, who is obliged to give him fuftenance, and not fuffer him to perith for want. Every person committed to hard labour in an house of correction, is intitled to the whole of what he earns; though it is common in the goaler to allow them only a small part, and when the labour of the prifoner has produced a fhilling, to give him only a penny brick for his day's fubfiftence. An analyfis of the philofophical works of La 25 6 d Whiston. Bolingbroke Notes on the philofophical writings of Ld BoNeon. lingbroke By C. Bulkeley. 2s. 6d. A sketch of Ld Bolingbroke's philosophy. By is 6d. Payne. R. Heathcote, A. M. PHYSIC, HISTORY, &C. 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A genteel man, (give me double attention, pray, my Lord; for this is the depth of all), a genteel man gives himself airs in complaifance to himself; he does it to inform others of the value he fets upon his perfon; to remind them he is a perfon of merit, and that the whole ftudy of his life is to command the general attention. Is he in the walks? he fteps with a fiery boldness and spirit: he carries his head high; his hands are both tucked into the girdle that fupports his muff, as if he said to the people about him: Way, gentlemen! obferve me as I pafs by you. Say, have not I an air of quality? Am I not made for motion? And you, my pretty malicious little ladies, who follow me with your eyes, your whispers, and your smiles, you would have me every one of you; you would have me Does he fee a man of his acquaintance país by? he affects the evility of a Lord; he gives him a nod, a (toop of the head, as if he faid to him, Your fervant, Good morrow to you! I recollect you! you shall not want my counte nanceDoes he come into a room where is company? he throws himself into an eafy chair, tofks one leg over the other; he raps with his foot; be difplays fome pretty graces; he plays with the lace of his fhirt-bolom with one hand, and strokes his chin with the other; he courts himself, and feems to fay in converfation with himself, Upon my foul, I am a very agreeable raícal." Appius; a new tragedy. 1 s. 6 d. Millar. The love encounter. 6 d. Cooper.If the author of this performance is mad, it is pity that he is not in Bedlam; if he is not mad, it is a pity he is not in Bridewell. Chit-chat. 5 s. Dodsley. Dodfley's collection of poems, vol. 4. Dod fley- In this piece the author defcribes all the Her chariot was a fail's embroider'd shell, Her horfes flies, a bee her charioteer. The mighty monarch rode in royal flate, let In leffen the pleafure with which it is read by an English reader of quick sensation and a true taste. Neither does it appear, that in this translation Dr Scott has, upon the whole, kept nearer to the na ked fenfe of Homer, than Mr Pope. The following fpecimen of both, will illuitrate the principles here advanced; and though the Doctor has, with Homer, represented Neftor as rifing hastily, and Mr Pope, on the contrary, has reprefented him as rifing flowly, yet the paffage is more pleafung in Pope than in Scott; and Scott, if he has not perverted the fenfe of Homer, has incumbered and enfeebled it with additions of his own. The greater part of the long parenthefis, which is diftinguished by Italics, is one inftance of this liberty, and the learned reader will find many o thers. Dr SCOTT's So fpake the fiery chief, and in his wrath Down to the ground his fceptre threw, with ftuds Of richeft gold adorn'd; then all in frowns His feat relumes. To him in fite oppos'd Atrides with like heat intemperate glow'd. This feen, up-ruf'd the Tylian fage, (fuch zeal And anxious fears had rous'd the patriot heart Of Neftor, in persuasive speech well skill'd); More fweetness than the bee's sweet nectar yields, Flow'd from his lips: Two ages of mankind Roll'd off that venerable head had feen; And both furviving, in the third he reign'd: Who now, replete with wisdom, thus began: "Ah me! the grief to my prefaging thought How deep! which Greece through all her states invades! While Priam with big joy, and Priam's fons, Mr POPE's. He fpoke; and furious hurl'd against the ground His fceptre ftarr'd with golden ftuds around. "Then fternly filent fat. With like disdain, The raging king return'd his frowns again. To calm their paffion with the words of age, Slow from his feat arofe the Pylian fage, Experienc'd Nefter, in perfuafion skill'd, Words, fweet as honey, from his lips diftill'd: Two generations now had pafs'd away, Wife by his rules, and happy by his sway; Two ages o'er his native realm he reign'd, And now th' example of the third remain'd. All view'd with awe the venerable man, Who thus, with mild benevolence, began: "What fhame, what woe is this to Greece! what joy To Troy's proud monarch, and the friends of That adverte gods commit to ftern debate [Trey! The beft, the braveft of the Grecian flate! Young as-ye are, this youthful heat restrain, Decifions of the court of feffion, from Jone 16. 1753, to March 9. 1754 Collected by Meff. Thomas Miller, Robert Bruce, and John Swinton junior, and Sir David Dalrymple. Advocates. 25. Hamilton & Balfour. [xv. 84 The fituation of the world at the time of Chrift's appearance, and its connection with the fuccefs of his religion, confidered. 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With a special appointment, whereby the oground and meritorious cause of bestowing all saving graces and fpecial benefits upon the elect. obedience and death are made the legal ground 2. With a general appointment. whereby Christ's and meritorious caufe of fufpending the immediate and full execution of the threatened curse of the first covenant; of bestowing common favours upon mankind in general; and of preaching the gofpel to them. ABERDEEN. Ruffia. By Alex. Gordon of Auchintoul, Efq; The hiftory of Peter the Great, Emperor of who was feveral years a Major-General in the Czar's fervice. 2 vols 8vo. 10s. Douglas & Murray. The hiftory of the rebellion in 1745 and 1746. Extracted from the Scots Magazine. 2 s. 6 d. Douglas & Murray. An addrefs to the town and county of Aberdeen, upon the present state of trade and manufactures. 2 d. Douglas & Murray. An account of three of the bocks in Feb. Mag. [112] The journal of a voyage to Lisbon, by Hears Fielding, Efq; This journal contains an account of the adventures and diftreffes of the author and his family, in a journey from Fordham to Rotherhithe, on board the hip; thence to the ifle of Wight; and |