Miscellanea aurea: or, The golden medley : Consisting of I A voyage to the mountains of the moon .. II The fortunate shipwreck, or, A description of New Athens .. VII An account of bad and good women, ancient and modern Among which is the story of the Spartan dame, the subject of Mr Southern's play With several other epistolary essays in prose and verse: . was thought hewanted even Neceflaries,- he had expreft a greatFriendlhip for Cal/ias, wlio, by the Favours donehim by ArifUdes during his Execution of feveralPofts of State, had heapt together conliderableRiches. The Athenians finding Arifii
Miscellanea aurea: or, The golden medley : Consisting of I A voyage to the mountains of the moon .. II The fortunate shipwreck, or, A description of New Athens .. VII An account of bad and good women, ancient and modern Among which is the story of the Spartan dame, the subject of Mr Southern's play With several other epistolary essays in prose and verse: . was thought hewanted even Neceflaries,- he had expreft a greatFriendlhip for Cal/ias, wlio, by the Favours donehim by ArifUdes during his Execution of feveralPofts of State, had heapt together conliderableRiches. The Athenians finding Arifiides fo poor,publickly accusd CaUias as falfe to his Friend-lhip, in letting fuch a Friend want whilft heabounded j and he had certainly been con- F demnd, 166] demnd, had not Arifiides come into the Courtand aflurd the Judges that Calliai was not infault, for that he had frequently preft him toaccept a fhare in his Fortune, which he al-ways refusd to do, that the Athenians might notthink the Favours he had done his Friend werefor his own fake. This Inflance {hows us, thatin Athens Poverty was no Hindrance to Virtue,fince that Great Man paft thro all the moftconfiderable Pods of State in the midft of vyhatever it was in Athens^ in our Time ithas a quite contrary Effed; for now Men arechofen into Pofts by their Wealth, not Virtueor t^7] LETTER VII. The falfe Zealot* lanfane Animis ceeleflibm Irjef To Mrf, Teazeall near the Abbey in Weft-:niinfter, TH O I did not think of troubling myfelfwith ever Writing to you; yet upon theArrival of your Nephew, and on his Account,and the barbarous Ufage he met with from you>I fhall attempt for once to wafli the Ethiopwhite; for I am fenfible it is but to little pur-pofe to talk Reafon to a Woman that is whollya Slave to her Paflions, efpecially the Paffions ofAnger and Revenge. But when I confider thegreat Pretenfions you make to Religion, yourmighty noify Zeal for the Church, I would con-clude that you were a Chriftian,
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