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The Speech Of Miss Polly Baker,
their posterity to the thousandth generation . Is not this a greater offence against the public good , then mine ? Compel them , then , by law , either to marriage , or to pay double the fine of fornication , every year . What must poor young women do , whom custom hast forbid to solicit the men , and who cannot force themselves upon husbands , when the laws take no care to provide them any ; do their without them
and yet severely punish them if they duty ; the duty of the first and great command of nature , and of nature ' s God , increase and multiply : a duty , from the steady performance of which , nothing has been able to deter me ; but for it ' s sake , I have hazarded the loss of the public esteem , and have frequently endured public disgrace and punishment ; and therefore ought in my humble opinion , instead of a whipping , to have a statue erected to my memory .
Anecdote Of Bishop Burnet.
ANECDOTE OF BISHOP BURNET .
npfiE celebrated Bishop Burnet was famous for that-absence of J |_ thought which constitutes the character of what the French call VEtourdie . All the world knows , that at Paris , about the year 1680 , several ladies of quality were imprisoned on suspicion . of poisoning , and among the rest , the Countess of Soissons , niece of cardinal Mazarine , and mother of the famous warrior Prince rei when
Euo-ene of Savoy . In the latter end of Queen Anne ' s gn , the ° Prince came over to England , Bishop Burnet , whose curiosity was as eager as that of any woman in the kingdom , begged of the Duke of Ma ! borough , that he might have the satisfaction of being in company with a person whose fame resounded thro' all Europe . The Duke lied with his requeston condition that he would be upon
comp , his guard against saying any thing that might give disgust ; and he was invited to dine with the Prince , and other company , at Marlborough-house . The Bishop , mindful of the caution he had received , resolved to sit silent and incognito during the . " whole entertainment , and might have Kept his resolution had not Prince Euo-eneseeing him a dignified clergyman took it in his head to ask
, who he was . He no sooner understood that it was Dr . Burnet , of Whom he had often heard , than he addressed himself to the Bishop , and among other questions , asked when he was last at Paris . Burnet , fluttered by this unexpected address , and still more perplexed by an eager desire to g ive the satisfaction required , answered with precipitation , that he could not recollect the year , but it Soissons
was at the time when the Countess of was imprisoned . He had scarce pronounced the -words , when , his eyes meeting those of the Duke ,- he instantly , recognized his blunder , and was deprived of all the discretion he had left . He redoubled his error ' by asking pardon of his Hig hness : he stared wildly around , ami seeing the whole company embarrassed , and out of countenance , retired in the utmost confusion .
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The Speech Of Miss Polly Baker,
their posterity to the thousandth generation . Is not this a greater offence against the public good , then mine ? Compel them , then , by law , either to marriage , or to pay double the fine of fornication , every year . What must poor young women do , whom custom hast forbid to solicit the men , and who cannot force themselves upon husbands , when the laws take no care to provide them any ; do their without them
and yet severely punish them if they duty ; the duty of the first and great command of nature , and of nature ' s God , increase and multiply : a duty , from the steady performance of which , nothing has been able to deter me ; but for it ' s sake , I have hazarded the loss of the public esteem , and have frequently endured public disgrace and punishment ; and therefore ought in my humble opinion , instead of a whipping , to have a statue erected to my memory .
Anecdote Of Bishop Burnet.
ANECDOTE OF BISHOP BURNET .
npfiE celebrated Bishop Burnet was famous for that-absence of J |_ thought which constitutes the character of what the French call VEtourdie . All the world knows , that at Paris , about the year 1680 , several ladies of quality were imprisoned on suspicion . of poisoning , and among the rest , the Countess of Soissons , niece of cardinal Mazarine , and mother of the famous warrior Prince rei when
Euo-ene of Savoy . In the latter end of Queen Anne ' s gn , the ° Prince came over to England , Bishop Burnet , whose curiosity was as eager as that of any woman in the kingdom , begged of the Duke of Ma ! borough , that he might have the satisfaction of being in company with a person whose fame resounded thro' all Europe . The Duke lied with his requeston condition that he would be upon
comp , his guard against saying any thing that might give disgust ; and he was invited to dine with the Prince , and other company , at Marlborough-house . The Bishop , mindful of the caution he had received , resolved to sit silent and incognito during the . " whole entertainment , and might have Kept his resolution had not Prince Euo-eneseeing him a dignified clergyman took it in his head to ask
, who he was . He no sooner understood that it was Dr . Burnet , of Whom he had often heard , than he addressed himself to the Bishop , and among other questions , asked when he was last at Paris . Burnet , fluttered by this unexpected address , and still more perplexed by an eager desire to g ive the satisfaction required , answered with precipitation , that he could not recollect the year , but it Soissons
was at the time when the Countess of was imprisoned . He had scarce pronounced the -words , when , his eyes meeting those of the Duke ,- he instantly , recognized his blunder , and was deprived of all the discretion he had left . He redoubled his error ' by asking pardon of his Hig hness : he stared wildly around , ami seeing the whole company embarrassed , and out of countenance , retired in the utmost confusion .