THE

LOOKER-ON:

A

PERIODICAL PAPER.

BY THE

REV. SIMON OLIVE-BRANCH, A. M.

N° 51-72.

No.

CONTENTS.

VOL. XLIII.

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51. SOLEMN synod of females---State of the fe-

male world Miranda's praise ---Various

letters, petitions, &c. read---Court of the

Bona Dea---Rights of Woman---Dialogue

between a mademoiselle and her mistress---

Juvenal charged with a libel---Decree of

the assembly---Pleasant story of the three

Furies

52. Subject of analogy continued---State of pro-

bation--Doctrine of fatalism

53. Threatening letter to Simon Olive-branch,

on his intended visit to the metropolis---

His head as unsafe as the pope's---De-

nounced by a club of patriots---A new Al-

legro---Pleasures of the town

54. Story of the Athenian madman---The mad
carpenter and the king of Bohemia---Simon
Olive-branch enters the metropolis---His
surprises--- Universal pregnancy Letter
from madam Olive-branch---Naked bosoms
---Swelled necks---Advertisement thereon
Conjuring friend --- Modern improve-

ments---Proclamation of the female synod 32

55. Simon still in the capital---Catalogue of vul-

gar errors---Character of a polished man---

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Two characters from Mons. La Bruyere

-Vision of the Well of Truth

56. Sentiments on the spring---A London spring

--Epigram---A city spring, the season

Passage from baron Von

for salmon

Lowhen

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57. Sermon to a clerical congregation---Pulpit

eloquence---Clerical fops

58.

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Hospitality---Curious list of the moral be-
nefits wrought by good dinners---Story
from Lonicerus, of the devil and a drunk-
ard---Fable of gout and a flea

59. The philosophy of the comfortable---Cha-

racter of Demades --- Greek and Roman

ideas of comfort---English the only clas-

sics in the comfortable---Introduction and

reception of Anacharsis

60. Translation---Specimen of a modern trans-

lation of Virgil

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61. Same subject--- Difficulty and dignity of

translation

62. Modern sensibility---Grown gentlemen and

ladies taught sensibility on mathematical

principles---Anecdote of a king of France

Poem on sensibility--Poem on a sick

infant

63. Thoughts on love---The hereditary com-

plexion of the Olive-branch family---A

mysterious pudding --- Mr. Isaac Olive-

branch's poetical receipt---Queen Eliza-

beth and lord Essex---Simon's mother not

degenerate---The manner in which love

operates on Simon himself---Love's con-

cerns transacted on the Exchange---Clari-

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na's lamentations---Story of Renée Cor-

beau

64. The mock pathos in composition exposed

---Bombastical moralists--A pensively-

elegant lecture on life, extracted from

the scene presented by Covent-Garden

market

65. The sweeping effects of time---Melancholy

contemplations arising thereupon---Signi-

ficancy of this fluctuating character, and

the great and consoling arguments it sup-

plies to thinking men---]
--Letter from Eu-

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genio to Amelia

66. Scandal viewed in more lights than one---

Short history of scandal---A passage from

Lucian---Story of the green ass---Ana-

tomy of an old maid's ear

67. The practice of lying considered---Extraor-
dinary letter on the subject, to Simon
Olive-branch, read at the Club, containing
a strange account of a classical lie---Its
various impressions on the Club---Mr.
Allworth's speech on the subject of the
letter---Sentiment from Cicero---A fable
---Viceroy of Naples and the galley-slave
-Mr. Blunt's story of the inquisitorial

bridge......

68. God's government one great scheme---The

ignorance and audacity which man carries

to the contemplation of it---Passage from

the book of Job admirable to this point

69. On the excellency of an early inculcation

of religious principles, in respect to every

object of education---Story of Polemo's

conversion --- Eugenio's letter
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