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"To make this the furer, as in the other cafe, reverfe the propofition. While your arm is burning, let any one bawl aloud, that misfortunes are coming on you thicker than they did upon Job; you will find that the poker must be removed, before you can receive the infor

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"Now, though we all muft acknowledge the truth of this argument; there is no one but fears, that to believe it would be fomething like wickednefs. "It is, it is wickedness," replied the afflicted lady, " and I do not believe a syllable of all you have faid."

Having furnished the reader with fo Short an answer to the writer's opinionslet us, for the prefent, part.

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On a Reform of Parliament

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The Cup-bearer, an Indian Tale

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Almanacks

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