...........Non de villis domibusve alienis, HOR. VOLUME I. PHILADELPHIA: ITED FOR SAMUEL F. BRADFORD, NO. 4, S THIRD STREET, III. V. way's, Batson's, St. Paul's, and the Chapter Coffee-houses; at the Temple, the Bedford Cof- fee-house, White's, and other places.......... Mr. taining a catalogue of pictures collected abroad The Ocean of Ink, a dream. Account of a new order of females, called Demi- Reps. Letter from a Physician, with the account of a particularly a maid of honour; and others. Education of the Muses, a fable; with its applica- tion to authors. Progress of an author exem- plified in Mr. Town's own life. Letter, on married people fondling before compa- ny. Behaviour of a loving couple at dinner. Indecency of modern plays censured. On the external ornament used by writers. Ad- vantages arising to them from the arts used in On Free-thinking. Abuses committed by the vul- gar in this point. Free-thinking debates at the 3. 4 NUMBER, X. X1. XVI. PAGE. On the want of learning in land-officers. Absurdity of Lord Bolingbroke representing Mo- ses as making beasts accountable for crimes. Trial of Beasts, a vision. Indictment against an hog, a cat, a parrot, a milch-ass, a monkey, Letter from Mr. Village, concerning elections. Account of a borough town divided into two parties, Christians and Jews. An Anti-Judaic entertainment. Character of a country knight, Letter, complaining of the Whisperers and Gig- lers among the Fair-sex. Instance of their rude behaviour during a visit. Whispering and Gig- ling improper at church, in the play-house, and On bets particularly on the custom of pitting, as practised at White's; i.e. staking one man's life against another. Character of Montano a noble gamester. XVII. Letter, proving the city of London to be an Uni- versity. Arts and sciences taught there in great- er perfection than at Oxford or Cambridge. XVIII. On the dishonesty of Connoisseurs. Instances of it, and punishment proposed for it. Story of a Virtuoso's design to rob a church. Letter, on the different tastes in eating. XIX. Luxury at White's. Difference between the taverns |