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The Man Of Pleasure.
associates ; hut dupes not being sufficiently plenty of late , he was . compelled to create some trifling debts , which being unable to pay when demanded , he was arrested , and may now be seen in the King ' s Bench , with scarcely a covering to his nakedness . Many similar instances mi ght be produced ofthe fatal effects of gaming . The ladies have still more to fear , for a run of ill [ luck mayriot only , rob them of their fortunes but their honour . Margate and Brighton have frequently borne witness of female debts of honour not being literall y paid in coin .
Thoughts Suggested By Beading A Treatise On The "Origin Of Language."
THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY BEADING A TREATISE ON THE "ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE . "
I HAVE with pleasure perused this most ingenious work , and am sorry lam obliged to differ from so learned , an author in some particulars . One of which is , that I give , greater credit to the Jewish Historian Moses , than to those travellers , either ancient or modern , whom he mentions . "Whatever length of time men may have been without speech , i shall not say : —we are told by historians , that silence was imposed by . the ancient philosophers upon their disciples
, and it appears by their obedience that they were capable of it ; and , therefore , the author of this work mig ht have added to the mixed character he gives-of man , that of his being either a speaking or a dumb animal .
But there is an originality in the female tongue , and an incapability of silence , upon which I found-my hypothesis , that Moses ' s Eve , or the first female , was taught to speak by the Devil , in the shape of a serpent : —could she have spoken before , or had she foundthat no animal excepting herself and her husband could speak , shewould have been surprized at the Serpent ' s speaking , which we donot find that she was . ,
The Devil had lived much longer than either Eve or her husband . The Author very properly observes that political life was the , first thing that made language necessary , and that political life cannot be carried on without . Now , the'Devil had been engaged in political life , even in our modern ideas of politics , that of " forming parties ; " and he must not only have had the common use of speech , but have carried
it the length of eloquence ; for , from his time to . this day , eloquence has been applied to the forming of parties , principally , if not only . If he then had the art , in Heaven , to impose upon Angels , no wonder so great a master had power to persuade Eve—perhaps in the first month of her life , that the eating of that fruit had- endowed him with the power of speech ^ of which her-husband was incapable - ^ -her nature
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The Man Of Pleasure.
associates ; hut dupes not being sufficiently plenty of late , he was . compelled to create some trifling debts , which being unable to pay when demanded , he was arrested , and may now be seen in the King ' s Bench , with scarcely a covering to his nakedness . Many similar instances mi ght be produced ofthe fatal effects of gaming . The ladies have still more to fear , for a run of ill [ luck mayriot only , rob them of their fortunes but their honour . Margate and Brighton have frequently borne witness of female debts of honour not being literall y paid in coin .
Thoughts Suggested By Beading A Treatise On The "Origin Of Language."
THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY BEADING A TREATISE ON THE "ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE . "
I HAVE with pleasure perused this most ingenious work , and am sorry lam obliged to differ from so learned , an author in some particulars . One of which is , that I give , greater credit to the Jewish Historian Moses , than to those travellers , either ancient or modern , whom he mentions . "Whatever length of time men may have been without speech , i shall not say : —we are told by historians , that silence was imposed by . the ancient philosophers upon their disciples
, and it appears by their obedience that they were capable of it ; and , therefore , the author of this work mig ht have added to the mixed character he gives-of man , that of his being either a speaking or a dumb animal .
But there is an originality in the female tongue , and an incapability of silence , upon which I found-my hypothesis , that Moses ' s Eve , or the first female , was taught to speak by the Devil , in the shape of a serpent : —could she have spoken before , or had she foundthat no animal excepting herself and her husband could speak , shewould have been surprized at the Serpent ' s speaking , which we donot find that she was . ,
The Devil had lived much longer than either Eve or her husband . The Author very properly observes that political life was the , first thing that made language necessary , and that political life cannot be carried on without . Now , the'Devil had been engaged in political life , even in our modern ideas of politics , that of " forming parties ; " and he must not only have had the common use of speech , but have carried
it the length of eloquence ; for , from his time to . this day , eloquence has been applied to the forming of parties , principally , if not only . If he then had the art , in Heaven , to impose upon Angels , no wonder so great a master had power to persuade Eve—perhaps in the first month of her life , that the eating of that fruit had- endowed him with the power of speech ^ of which her-husband was incapable - ^ -her nature