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Thus, Sir, I made trial of all defcriptions of men, and my inferences are clearly thefe; that good men, great, wife men, &c. according to the world's eftimation, are the moft pitiful and defpicable people in reality, for they affume characters to which they have no right, and form pretenfions to which justice cannot accede. Whereas, thofe who, according to the undifcerning fashion of an undifcerning world

are accounted as the drofs of mankind,
generally prove to be the only wife
and ufeful men. But it is not my
bufinefs to moralize. That you can
do beft. With the warmest wishes for
the fuccefs of your useful Magazine,
I am, Sir,
Your moft obedient,

and very humble fervant.

BARNABY BEARALL. Turn-again-lane, Nov. 17, 1783.

CONTRAST BETWEEN A MAN OF FASHION AND CITIZEN OF THE WORLD.

THE HE Man of Fashion is inftructed how to walk, how to ftand, how to dance, how to ride, how to laugh, how to fmile, how to frown, how to be angry, how to fight, and how to be familiar. He is taught a mode of eating, drinking, gaming, fwearing, and wenching, and, in the combination of all thefe, how to be the fine gentleman.

The Citizen of the World takes Nature for his nursery-maid, and does not pretend to walk until he can firft ftand. His polite accomplishments are under the dictates of reafon, and the body, in its functions, never ridicules the just conceptions of the mind. A proper arrangement of each thus unites the real gentleman with the man of fenfe.

The Man of Fajion makes the grand tour-nerely to have it faid that he has been abroad. He talks of foreign towns and cities; cuftoms and manners, uninftructed in the theory, and unacquainted with the practice. He fpeaks French and Italian, without knowing the rudiments of his native language, and on all occafiens prefers the maniere et le je-ne-jeai-quoi of Italy or France to the home-fpun hofpitality of England.

The Citizen of the World, in unity, peace, and concord with the customs of every clime, and every nation, improves his native abilities by what he difcovers in foreign countries. But, whit he proits by the example, he ftill prefers the downright honesty of a British boor to the tinfel deceit of a foreign puppy.

The Man of Fabion enters upon life Jong ere he fhould quit the authority

of his preceptor-His youth, in confequence, becomes a fcene of diffipation, and, before he attains the age, he lofes the virility of manhood. Thus, the whole bufinefs of life is fruftrated, and the great end of creation deftroyed. He flides into a drawing-room, when his country demands the nerve of his arm. We find him dallying in imaginary blifs, when the ability of enjoyment is gone for ever! In this fituation he is the conftant attendant of a tea-table, a morning concert, or an evening promenade. His excellence confifts in picking his teeth, pretending to be deaf at an opera, and laughing loud enough to disturb an audience at a tragedy: but the fummit of his glory is, to be thought in poffeffion of what he has not.

The Citizen of the World enters upon the bufinefs of life, when The Man of Fashion is quitting the ftage of manhood. His youth, by being carefully watched, becomes the ftamina vitæ of man, and his athletic body proves the foundnefs of his conftitution. He foars to glory, and his heart pants for an opportunity to attain it. If the fupport of his country demands the affiftance of his arm, he raifes it in her defence; or if he is called upon in the fenate, to defend her rights and privileges, his eloquence is manly, and his reafoning incontrovertible. He abhors the fhedding of blood, except when neceffity demands the fword, and the benevolence of his mind feeks for the bleffings of peace, although the vigour of his body enfures the honour of conqueft,

L. X. POETRY.

POETRY.

A HYMN TO THANKSGIVING,

Will extol thee, O my God!

I will an off'ring bring!

My heart, my grateful heart I give
To my Almighty King.

Mine inward anguish thou haft feen,
And heard my fecret prayer,
And giv'n me comfort, and thy love
Hath fav'd me from defpair.
For I was humbled in the duft,
Afflicted and difmay'd,

E'en by mine own foreboding thoughts
To agony betray'd.

All day alone, in filence fad,

I fed mine inward woe,

And the long, weary, wakeful night
Beheld my forrow flow.

The green grafs withers on the hill,
Burnt by the fcorching ray,
So did I languifh, pine, and feel
My very foul decay.

My foul was fmitten fore, my heart
Cleft with affliction's sword;
But thou, into my bleeding wounds
Thy confolation pour'd.
Thy holy fpirit came to me

Wing'd from the realms above,
And thed into my wounds the balın
Of thy renewing love.

Thy love to me was fhewn; and now
I feel my bofom free,
Free from opprefling care, and full
Of gratitude to thee.

Thou art my folace, and my hope,
My glory, and my stay!

My father, faviour! unto whom
Due homage I will pay.

And I will celebrate thy name,

And ferve thee while I live,

Mine heart, mine ardent heart, to thee,

O King of Saints! I give.

ON TROY. FROM THE GREEK.

K.

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Thy high-embattled towers, thy fpacious halls?
Where are thy temples, fill'd with forms divine?
Where is thy Pallas? Where her awful thrine?
The mighty Hector where? thy fav'rite boat;
And all thy valiant fons? a numerous hoft!
Thy arts, thy arms, thy riches, and thy state?
Thy pride of pomp-thy all that made thee great?
Thefe proftrate now in duft and ruin lie;
But thy tranfcendant fame can never die :
Fate boafts no power to fink thy glories paft;
They fill the world, and with the world thall laft.
J. A.

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NEW AIRS in the CASTLE OF ANDALUSIA.
AIR.

A Every fence and evry powo
T the peaceful, midnight hour,

Fetter'd lies in downy fleep,
Then our careful watch we keep.
While the wolf in nightly prow!
Bays the moon with hideous howl;
Gates are barr'd, and vain refiftance,
Females fhrick, but no afliftance.
Silence! or you meet your fate;
Your keys, your jewels, cafh, and plate;
Locks, bolts, and bars, foon fly alunder,
Then to rifle, rob, and plunder!

AIR.

ON by the fpur of valour goaded,
Pistols prim'd, and carbines loaded,

Courage ftrikes on hearts of feel;
Whilft each fpark, thro' the dark gloom of night,
Lends a clear and chearing light,

Who a fear or doubt can feel?

Like ferpents now thro' thickets creeping,

Then on our prey like lions Icaping;

Calvetti to the onfet lead us,

Let the weary traveller dread us;

Struck with terror and amaze,

While our fwords with light'ning blaze.

Thunder to our carbines roaring,
Bunting clouds in torrents pouring,
Wath the fanguine dagger's blade,
Our's a free and roving trade;
To the onfet let's away,
Valour calls, and we obey!

AIRS, &c. in the new Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN, THE PHANTOM OF A DAY: and in THE CESTUS, a Serenata.

THO

AIR.

HOUGH my fong will but teach what alrea dy you know, [nouvean, That there's no place like Paris pour quelque chofe That strangers in plenty its audience compofe, Who, like Tantony pigs, are all led by the nofe; Yet

*This is imitated with fome elegance, but great prolixity, by Prior"The pride of every grove I chote."

Yet not all they've bragg'd, gafconaded, and bounced,

To impole on credulity, yet has announced
Such furprife as the air balloon, lately feen there,
Which men, pigs, and chickens, conveys thro'
the air.

This wonder appear'd in the wide fields of Mars,
As an omen portentous of their future wars;
Giving out, by quaint reafon and fly implication,
It should, one day or other, go hard this nation:
Old England's devoted--'us their's--for as foon
As they shall alliance have made with the moon;
Let the ocean be our's, ftill little they care,
For they watch our waters while riding in air.
Thus refolv'd to fubdue us-when ready, they

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WHO calls on her whofe powerful art
Erects a throne in every heart;
Whofe love all court, whole anger fear-
Venus 'yclept-behold her here.

Sighs fome fond youth his love unkind,
Would he fome watchful Argus blind?
Glows feme fair virgin's modeft check
With withes that the dare not ipeak?

AIR.

OUR Jupiter has near his throne
Two veffels which he fills,
The one with benefits alone,

The other crams with ills.

From the good veffel, health, content,
Plenty, and blifs he gives;
While from the evil, forth are fent

Gout, ftone, and scolding wives.

Thus to mankind, with heedful care,

In juft proportion weigh'd, The lot to each, each beft can bear, By Jove's decrees convey'd. Unless his patience, when to rub, The devil Juno drives; Then headlong from the left-hand tub Go troops or fcolding wives.

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To Bedford next, refiftless fair, We put the glafs about;

Whofe charms fo bright and fatal are
That future times will doubt

Which of the two have caus'd more fighs,
Or Marlbro's fword or Spencer's eyes.
With a fa, la, &c.

In this we health to D'Arcy fend,
To D'Arcy young and gay;
And fee what crowds her iteps attend,

Their homage due to pay.

So fly the bees on eager wing
Around the prime of all the spring.

With a fa, la, &c.

Let Wyndham next our wine infpire,
And raife each ravifh'd fenfe,
More bleft with beauty than her fire
With manly eloquence.

For could his tongue charm like her eyes
E'en Walpole's felf muft yield the prize.
With a fa, la, &c.

See next at Williams' fhrine we bow,

By youthful beauty led,

As wild as kids upon the brow

Of her own mountain fed.

Yet, though the's free and wild as they,
She too, like them, mutt love obey.

With a fa, la, &c.

Though you, O Marfel! laft we toast,

Be not to us fevere;

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the wrong,

When you merily marriage deride;
For to marriage alone lafting pleafures belong,
And in thein we can folely confide.

The joys which from lawless connections arife
Are fugitive-never fincere;

Oft ftolen with hafte, and oftinatch'd by surprise;
Interrupted by doubt and by fear.

But thofe which in legal attachment we find,
When the heart is with innocence pure,
Are from ev'ry embitt'ring reflexion refin'd,
And while lite can tafte joy will endure.
The love which you boast deferves not the name;
True love is with fentiment join'd;
But your's is a paffion, a feverish flame,

Rais'd without the confent of the mind.

When, dreading confinement, ye mistrelles hire, With this and with that quickly cloy'd; You're led and milled by a flattering falfe fire, And are oft by that fire destroy'd.

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Prefented by a Gentleman to his Wife, on the
Anniversary of their Wedding-Day.
"THEE, MARY, with this ring I wed,
So fixteen years ago I faid-
Behold another ring!" "For what?"
"To wed thee o'er again-why not?"-
With the FIRST ring I married youth,
Grace, beauty, innocence, and truth;
Tafte long admir'd, fenfe long rever'd:
And all my MOLLY THEN appear'd.
If the, by merit fince difclos'd,
Prove twice the woman I fuppos'd,
I plead that double merit now,

To justify a double vow.

Here then, to-day (with faith as fure, With ardour as intenfe and pure,

As when amidst the rites divine

I took thy troth, and plighted mine)
To thee, fweet girl, my SECOND rings
A token and a pledge I bring;
With this I wed, till death us part,
Thy riper virtue, to my heart;
Thole virtues, which, betore untry'd,
The wife has added to the bride;
Thote virtues, whole progreflive claim,
Endearing wedlock's very name,
My foul enjoys, my long approves,
For confcience fake, as well as love's.

For why? They fhew me hour by hour Honour's high thought, Affection's pov, Diferetion's deed, found Judgement's fentence: And teach me all things--but REPENTANCE!

THE WISH.

By Mr. KEMBLE. Ason of Venue God of Love, RCHLY-fmiling, dimpled boy,

Grant my heart, the feat of joy,

Mify thy temple ever prove! Let me fing and laugh all day, Sweetly pats my nights away, Then arifing, tafte with you Blethings lathing, raptures new.

MATHEMATICS.

MATHEMATIC S.

ANSWERS TO MATHEMATICAL QUESTIONS.

6. QUESTION (VI. July) answered by the Rev. Mr. HELLINS, Teacher of the Mathematics and Philofophy.

FIRST, to find the leaft multiple of 59 that exceeds a multiple of 47 by 1: call

the multiplier of 47, x, and that of 59, y, and we have 47 * = 59 y−1; where it is evident that when x and y are is a whole number. But 484, and 47 V

therefore, x=

599-1
47

=+

12y-I
47

whole numbers,

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numbers, and confequently their difference, 24 is either a whole number or ✔,

47

and fince the conditions of the queftion require that the value of y fhall be the leaft poffible, it is evident that y-40, or y=4; and then x=5, and 236 is the leaft multiple of 59 that exceeds (235). a multiple of 47 by 1.

Secondly, to find the leaft multiple of 47 that exceeds a multiple of 59 by 1: Let x, and y, again ftand for the multipliers, and we have 47x=59y+1, from which equation by an argumentation fimilar to that above, we prove that +4

4-7

=

1; and then we get y=43, x=54, and 2538, the multiple required, which exceeds (2537) a multiple of 59, by unity.

Another SOLUTION by the Rev. Mr. JOHN GARNONS.

For the multiplier of 59, put x, and for the difference of it and that of 47 put y. Then to find the leaft multiple of 59 that exceeds a multiple of 47 by unity, we have 59x=47x+y+1, therefore y; where it is evident that when x

12X-I

4-7

and xy are the leaft poffible whole numbers (as the queftion requires) then 12X-1 is a whole number, equal to 1, and x=4, x+y=5, therefore 236 is

47

the leaft multiple of 59 that exceeds (235) a multiple of 47 by unity.

Secondly. To find the leaft multiple of 47 that exceeds a multiple of 59 by unity: we have 59x=47×x+3−1, whence x 43, and y=11, and x+y= 54; therefore, 2538 is the leaft multiple required, which exceeds (2537) a multiple of 59 by unity.

This Queftion was alfo anfwered by Meffis. Blake, Eaftwood, Hampshire, Kay, Todd, and Webb.

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A

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7. QUESTION (VII. July) anfwered by Mr. J. MERITT. Defcribe the primitive circle AZPR to reprefent the meridian of the place, make ZP equal to the complement of the given latitude, and draw the fix o'clock hour circle PC. With the fecant of 54° 15', the meafure of the time from noon, defcribe the hour circle PS and through Z, defcribe the verti cal circle ZSD to cut PS at right angles: then will PS be the complement of the stars declination. For round Z, as a pole, let the almicanter ASB he defcribed through S; and it is manifeft, as the vertical circle ZSD is perpendicular both to the almicanter ASB and hour circle PS, that the former touches the latter in the point S, confequently a ftar in that part of the hour circle is nearer to the zenith than any other which is in the fame hour circle.

Hence, as the tang. of the lat. is to the cofine of the angle ZPS, fo is radius to the tang. of PS the ttars diftance from that pole which is of the fame name with LOND. MAG. Nov. 1783. 3 I

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