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87 Description of the dropping well near Knares

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88 Obfervations on petrifying waters

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89 (8. Etymology of the word Poftilla) 252 90 An account of Wardrew fulphur-water, and a description of Wardrew in Northum

berland 253 91 The hiftory of Claudius Hobart, a reclufe 256 92 Who gives the author a manufcript, intitled, The Rule of Reafon, with a few thoughts on religion 93 Specimens of this tract, viz. Difcourfe on the rule of reason

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95 Of the myfteries, Trinity, and facrifice of

94 Account of revelation

the cross

96 Defence of the Socinians

97 An account of Socinus

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Felices homines! quos ftricto fœdere jungit,
Et focios natura facit! fic cura levatur !
Sic augentur opes! fic mutua gaudia crefcunt!
Thompson's Tuphlo-pero-gamia

That is,

Go, happy pair! in ftricteft bonds ally'd!
Whom nature joins, and can, alone, divide:
'Tis thus their riches and their joys increase,
Their cares grow lighter, and they smile in peace.

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HEN I confider

§. I.
how happy I have
been in the married ftate, and
in a fucceffion of seven wives,
never had one uneafy hour;

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* The author of Tuphlo-pero-gamia is the Rev. Mr. William Thompson;. a junior Fellow of Trinity ColVOL. III.

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lege,

Paradife without an Eve, would have been a wilderness to me; that the woods, the groves, the walks, the profpects, the Howers, the fruits, the day, the night, all would have wanted a relish, without that dear, delightful companion, a wife; it amazes me to hear many fenfible people speak with abhorrence of matrimony, and infift upon it, that wedlock produces fo many troubles, even where the pair have affection, and forrows fo very great, when they have no love for each other, or begin to fail in the kind and obliging offices, that it is contrary to reafon to contract, if we have a juft regard to peace and fatisfaction. of mind, and would avoid, as much as poffible, the woes and bewailings of this turbid period. If you have acquired the divine habits, marriage may unhinge them. It often forces even the pious into immoralities. True, unhappy are many a wedded pair: years of calamity this engagement has produced to thousands of mor

lege, Dublin, when I was a member of that univerfity. He was a man of the finest parts and learning, and was remarkable for a temper fo vaftly happy, that he was always called Benign Billy. His paraphrafe on Job, in blank verfe, is an admirable thing: It is, in my opinion, far preferable to the ingenious Broome's paraphrafe on this facred book.

tals:

tals: it has made the most pious divines become very cruel, as I could relate: it has caufed the moft generous, fenfible men, to murder the women they adored before they were their wives.

The Hiftory of Orlando and Bellinda.

§. 2. This story has been told before by the Tatler, in his 172d paper; but as he has related only by hear fay, and was mistaken in feveral particulars, the account I give of this extraordinary affair, may be grateful to the reader.

When I was a little boy in Dublin, between seven and eight, Mr. Eustace and his Lady lived next door to my father, in Smithfield, and the two families were intimate. Being a lively prating thing, Mrs. Euftace was fond of me, and by tarts and fruit, encouraged me to run into her parlour as often as I could. This made me well acquainted in the houfe; and, as I was a remarker fo early in my life, I had an opportunity of making the following obfervations.

Orlando Euftace was a tall, thin, strong man, well made, and a very genteel perB 2 fon.

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