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Monthly Archives: November 1751

No. 178. Many advantages not to be enjoyed together.

November 30, 1751

Purs sanitatis velle sanuria fuit. SENECA. To yield to remedies is half the cure. Pythagoras is reported to have required …

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No. 177. An account of a club of antiquaries.

November 26, 1751

Turpe est difficiles habere nugas. MART. Lib. ii. Ep. lxxxvi. 9.   Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will …

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No. 176. Directions to authors attacked by criticks.

November 23, 1751

—Naso suspendis adunco. HOR. Lib. i. Sat. vi. 5. On me you turn the nose.— There are many vexatious accidents …

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No. 175. The majority are wicked.

November 19, 1751

Rari quippe boni: numerus vix est totidem quot Thebarum portae, vel divitis ostia Nili. Juv. Sat. xiii. 26.   Good men …

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No. 174. The mischiefs of unbounded raillery. History of Dicaculus.

November 15, 1751

 Faenum habet in cornu, longe fuge; dummodo risum Excutiat sibi, non hic cuiquam parcet amico. HOR. Lib. i. Sat. iv. …

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No. 173. Unreasonable fears of pedantry.

November 12, 1751

Quo virtus, quo ferat error. HOR. De Ar. Poet. 308. Now say, where virtue stops, and vice begins? As any …

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No. 172. The effect of sudden riches upon the manners.

November 9, 1751

Sæpe rogare soles, qualis sim, Prisce, futurus, Si fiam locuples, simque repente potens. Quemquam posse putas mores narrare futuros? Die …

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No. 171. Misella’s description of the life of a prostitute.

November 5, 1751

Tædet coeli convexa tueri. VIRG. Æn. iv. 451. Dark is the sun, and loathsome is the day. TO THE RAMBLER. …

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No. 170. The history of Misella debauched by her relation.

November 2, 1751

Confiteor; si quid prodest delicta fateri. OVID. Am. Lib. i. El. iv. 3. I grant the charge; forgive the fault …

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