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607. Qualities necessary to make Marriage

Happy-the Flitch of Bacon

608. List of Persons who demanded the

Flitch of Bacon.........

609. Letters, on the improper Dress of
young Clergymen-on Antipathies
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610. Applause of Men not to be regarded-

Story of Gyges.....

611. Letter from a Lady insulted by her

Seducer-Reflexions on the Subject.

612. On the Pride of Genealogy

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614. Questions on Widows, answered by the
Love Casuist-Custom of Euborne.

615. On Fear.............................

616. On vulgar Phrases-Specimen..............

617. On strained and pompous Phrases-

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620. The Royal Progress, a Poem............
621. On improper Pride......

622. Memoirs of an honest Country Gen-

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624. Division of Mankind into Classes-
Pursuits of Avarice, Ambition, &c.
625. Questions in Love solved by the Love
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627. Letter to Zelinda from her Lover-

his Death......

628. On Eternity........

Translation of Cato's Soliloquy

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629. Absurd Claims of Reward ........................................... UNKNOWN
630. Church Music recommended-impro-

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631. On Cleanliness

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632. Power of Numbers - Grotto-work-
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635. Enlargement of the Powers of the

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SPECTATOR.

N° 567. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1714.

Inceptus clamor frustratur hiantes.

VIRG. En. vi. 493.

-The weak voice deceives their gasping throats.

DRYDEN.

I HAVE received private advice from some of my correspondents, that if I would give my paper a general run, I should take care to season it with scandal. I have indeed observed of late that few writings sell which are not filled with great names and illustrious titles. The reader generally casts his eye upon a new book, and, if he finds several letters separated from one another by a dash, he buys it up and peruses it with great satisfaction, An M and an h, a T and an *, with a short line

* M and an h means Marlborough, and T and an r means Treasurer.

VOL. XV.

between them, has sold many insipid pamphlets. Nay, I have known a whole edition go off by virtue of two or three well-written &cs.

A sprinkling of the words faction, Frenchman, papist, plunderer,' and the like significant terms, in an italic character, have also a very good effect upon the eye of the purchaser; not to mention scribbler, liar, rogue, rascal, knave, and villain,' without which it is impossible to carry on a modern controversy.

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Our party writers are so sensible of the secret virtue of an inuendo to recommend their productions, that of late they never mention the Qor P-t at length, though they speak of them with honour, and with that deference which is due to them from every private person. It gives a se cret satisfaction to a peruser of these mysterious works, that he is able to decypher them without help, and, by the strength of his own natural parts, to fill up a blank space, or make out a word that has only the first or last letter to it.

Some of our authors indeed, when they would be more satirical than ordinary, omit only the vowels of a great man's name, and fall most unmerci

fully upon all the consonants. This way of writing

was first of all introduced by T-m B-wn*, of facetious memory, who, after having gutted a proper name of all its intermediate vowels, used to plant it in his works, and make as free with it as he pleased, without any danger of the statute.

That I may imitate these celebrated authors, and publish a paper which shall be more taking than ordinary, I have here drawn up a very curious libel, in which a reader of penetration will find a great deal of concealed satire, and, if he be acquainted

*Tom Brown.

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