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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , London , Nov . i , 1795 . AS I find in the Freemasons' Magazine of September last , a copy of Verses , entitled , " On Viewing a Skeleton , Time ' s Lecture to-Man , " by Mrs . Slickland of Blandford ; I beg leave to refer you tothe Lady ' s Magazine for December 1774 ., page 662 , where you wilt find a Copy of Versesentitled" Upon the Siht of a Skeleton "
, , g , signed , Exoniensis , from whence I presume this Lady ' s copy to have been taken , and which are alike , except as to the alteration of language , and various omissions , which at present I incline to think were intended as a disguise ; but as it is impossible for me to know in what manner they were presented , I shall forbear any observations , other thanthatas a Friend and BrotherI consider the Freemasons '
, , , Magazine too respectable a publication to derive any benefit from eld materials , at least such as are not introduced to the public with the usual references . —1 beg the Lady and you to believe , I am impelled by no other motive than what arises from a sincere wish to promote and encourage literature irt general , the Freemasons' Magazine in particularand from ah apprehension that frequent
discove-, ries of this sort would be injurious to a publication , which is daily increasing in good report , and which I'h-ave esteemed from the beginning , and shall continue to use my best endeavours to support , as » long as I am induced to belive it deserves it . 1 am , Sir , Yours , &' c . T . L .
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. £ To this kind Correspondent we return our thanks for his notice . That we should sometimes be imposed on by plagiarists is not to be ' , wondered at ; but our Readers can have no idea of the number of instances in which we detect and suppress them without farther notice . Most writers create to themselves an enjoyment in the publi . cation of their labours ; but we are at a loss to conceive what
gratification can result to the person who deliberately " sits down to copythe productions of other pens , and present them to the world under , their own names or signatures . The present being not the , first at-, tempt of the kind from Mrs , S . we think ourselves justifiable in say-, iug , that we suppressed a former poetic contribution from her , in the middle of which we detected a string of couplets from . Rowels Jane
Shore , unmarked by any of the usual signs of Quotation , and very * evidently intended to pass as ori ginals . Mrs . S , however , is not the only person ( as before observed ) who takes this unprofitable trouble . Qui capit illefacit . ~ \ .
An Easy Method Of Destroying Bugs.
AN EASY METHOD OF DESTROYING BUGS .
TAKE two large bunches of the strongest wormwood , put them on the teaster of the bed , and the like under each p illow . ' ' ' JT . will entirely destroy them .
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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , London , Nov . i , 1795 . AS I find in the Freemasons' Magazine of September last , a copy of Verses , entitled , " On Viewing a Skeleton , Time ' s Lecture to-Man , " by Mrs . Slickland of Blandford ; I beg leave to refer you tothe Lady ' s Magazine for December 1774 ., page 662 , where you wilt find a Copy of Versesentitled" Upon the Siht of a Skeleton "
, , g , signed , Exoniensis , from whence I presume this Lady ' s copy to have been taken , and which are alike , except as to the alteration of language , and various omissions , which at present I incline to think were intended as a disguise ; but as it is impossible for me to know in what manner they were presented , I shall forbear any observations , other thanthatas a Friend and BrotherI consider the Freemasons '
, , , Magazine too respectable a publication to derive any benefit from eld materials , at least such as are not introduced to the public with the usual references . —1 beg the Lady and you to believe , I am impelled by no other motive than what arises from a sincere wish to promote and encourage literature irt general , the Freemasons' Magazine in particularand from ah apprehension that frequent
discove-, ries of this sort would be injurious to a publication , which is daily increasing in good report , and which I'h-ave esteemed from the beginning , and shall continue to use my best endeavours to support , as » long as I am induced to belive it deserves it . 1 am , Sir , Yours , &' c . T . L .
Ar04802
. £ To this kind Correspondent we return our thanks for his notice . That we should sometimes be imposed on by plagiarists is not to be ' , wondered at ; but our Readers can have no idea of the number of instances in which we detect and suppress them without farther notice . Most writers create to themselves an enjoyment in the publi . cation of their labours ; but we are at a loss to conceive what
gratification can result to the person who deliberately " sits down to copythe productions of other pens , and present them to the world under , their own names or signatures . The present being not the , first at-, tempt of the kind from Mrs , S . we think ourselves justifiable in say-, iug , that we suppressed a former poetic contribution from her , in the middle of which we detected a string of couplets from . Rowels Jane
Shore , unmarked by any of the usual signs of Quotation , and very * evidently intended to pass as ori ginals . Mrs . S , however , is not the only person ( as before observed ) who takes this unprofitable trouble . Qui capit illefacit . ~ \ .
An Easy Method Of Destroying Bugs.
AN EASY METHOD OF DESTROYING BUGS .
TAKE two large bunches of the strongest wormwood , put them on the teaster of the bed , and the like under each p illow . ' ' ' JT . will entirely destroy them .