Author: George Alexander Stevens

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781230167206

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1764 edition. Excerpt: ...have so impaired the constitution of my poor Mr. Highmoie, that I am terrified to death at the bare supposition of the consequences.--His employment all day is to recover from the excesses of the piectding evening, and his business all ni'_.ht to provide au indisposition tor the next day. O o For For God's fake, gentlemen, fay something about thole men of fense who look upon women to be ideots, and yet arc guilty of actions, that would make the meanest of us ashamed.--Is this superiority of understanding, upon which the generality of your sex so highly pique themselves, to be pleaded as an eternal excuse for indiscretions and errors, and no allowance to be made for the little failings of the poor women, tho' we are treated continually as fools? I could fay a great deal on this subject, but fearing to trespass too much upon your leisure, I (hall take my leave, And am, your's, Sec. Ahiohmori. From the Lady's Magazine. fie Hottentot Manner of Hunting and Fijbing, Continued. TH E most surprising strokes of the Hottentot dexterity are seen in their throwing of a stone. They hit a mark with a stone to a miracle of exactness, though the mark be a hundred paces distant, and no bigger than a halfpenny. I have beheld them at this exercise with the highest pleasure and astonishment; and was never weary of the spectacle. I still expected, aster repeated successes, that the stone would err 1 but I expected in vain: still went the stone right to the mark; and my pleasure and astonishment were redoubled. You would imagine thestone was destined not to err, or that you was not destined to fee it. Say people what they will of the stupidity of the Hottentots, there is nothing like their dexterity in the throwing of a stone, to be seen in. any other part of...