. An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known . T O P H ^E B E, Prefenting HER WITH A RING. ACcept, fair Maid! this Earneft of my Love,Be This the Type, let This my Paffion prove:Thus may our Joys in endlefs Circles run,Frefli as the Light, and
. An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known . T O P H ^E B E, Prefenting HER WITH A RING. ACcept, fair Maid! this Earneft of my Love,Be This the Type, let This my Paffion prove:Thus may our Joys in endlefs Circles run,Frefli as the Light, and reftlefs as the Sun:Thus may our Lives be one perpetual Round,Where Care nor Sorrow ever fliall be found. Thus SEVERAL OCCASIONS. 4? Thus may we live j but when you fee me die,Drop one fad Tear, and breath one gentle Sigh,Then pitying fay—may Heavn on him beftowIts choiceft Gifts, that he Above may knowJoys ftill as Endlefs, as he provd Below,. French POEMS ON 44S »JV» mJV« JV» *Jlr> ll i-» »tllrt «A» »d!r» *rfW» >t|V» »Jvr« «A> -A* l(lr> «JV» »JW» «Shall He, whom Drums and Warlike Sounds rejoyce,Sit fweetly-filent to Cutouts Voice,Sunk in foft Raptures fhew the Charmers Skill,And Die or Live at pretty Madams Will? Shall SEVERAL OCCASIONS 47 Shall He with Kickfhaws A-la-mode be fed,Traind up in Sloth, and to the Toilet bred ?Shall he be taught
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