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BL V TC, brown; green,
purpie, icarlt, huff,
^nd light-coloured, super
fine Broadcloths, twilled
and knap'd.
Brown, blue, claret, cin
namon and doth colour
ed Second Qioths.
Blue, green, grey and
brown, strong English
Knaps.
London brown, blue, tuff,
scarlet, white and firm'd
Caffmere.
London brown, striped,
Purple, and a variety
of (potted and blue tor
reft Cloths.
Buff, blue, green, cloth
coloured and white
Piulh.
Crimson, and a variety of
spotted, brown, claret
coloured, and black Vel
vets, plain and cut.
Brown, claret,olive,black,
green, white and purple
Corduroys.
Grey, white and striped
Costings,
Black Everlaftings^
Serge Denims.
Serge De jean.
Prunellas.=Duroon<.
A variety ot corded and
plain werfteds, luitabte
for gentlemens jackets
and breeches
A variety offik jacket and
breeches P^terne.
Corded Dimities.
White, biow n yolive, blue
and emborfed Surges.
Minorca St ger.
White Flannels.
Coded, plain and (potted
Callimanroes, of various
colours,
Blue and brown Baizes.
White Swanflen,
Shalloons of every colour.
Mens and womens worded
and cotton Hose of va
rious colours.
Purple, green and cloth
coloured Crapes.
A beautiful assortment of
Chintz and calicoes.
Mmeili% Quilting,
Blue, ftra% white, brown,
changeable and clouded
Mantuas of different
patterns.
MERCHANDIZE,
Which he will Sell, Wholesale and Retail, at Prices
so very low as to be perfectly agreeable to every i&-
fonable Purchaser.
Together with numherlefs other Articles, he offers to
Sale the following, viz.
And the SPINNING-WHEEL is removed, one Door
from where he lived, to the Corner of Market and
Third-streets, where is now Opening a large and ge
neral Affortiment of
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VOL. X. 1
TUESDAY
JOHN KEA N,
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GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Cotton RomalFs.
Irish, Dutch and French
Linens.
Bag Holland.
Broad and narrow Russia
Sheetings.
Delias.
L .vids.
White Sheeting.
Flowered & m.llnet lawns.
Millnet lawn Handker
chiefs.
Sewing fikks of all colours.
Thread of every colour
and fincnefs.
Plain and striped Mulling
coarfeand fine.
Long Lawn.
Ladies cotton Hose.
Silk Stockings aad Mitts.-
Purple Gloves and Mitts.
Twist of different colours.
Furniture Check.
Mens coarle Hofs and
Mitts.
Small milled Hose.
Snuff in bottles.
Camblets.
Durants.
Rattinets.
Venetian Poplins, &c.
Slated & Gilded Buttons
P n Knives.
Taylors & Small Sciffars.
Paper and japanned Snuff
Boxes.
Common So &acles#
Plated, pinchbeck, cop
per, brass and white
mettal ffioe and knee
buckles.
White-chappie and com
mon Engiifh Needles.
Hunters Knives & Forks.
Twelve and 14 % fad
lets Tacks.
Pounce Pirs.
Cork - cpews.
Polish ci ftcel and japan
nee Snuffers.
Silver Locket-button# of
various patterns.
In&-po!c.
Buckle B ufa
Hanover Laces.
Ttpei and Bobbin.
Quality am Coat Binding.
Razors, of the firft Quali
ty, in Cases, with
Straps, &c.
Tully Garters,
Writing paper.
Brafi Corks.
Published every TUESDAY and SATURDAY.
Black, garnet, crimson,
pink and striped Setting.
Black Modes,
Dove coloured Paduafoys.
A few pieces of beautiful
Brocades.
Striped, arid striped and
spotted bordered, blue,
green, brown and
crimson, ell-wide Per
fiarts.
White and crimson Serf
nets.
An elegant assortment of
the most fashionable
fi k Gauzes, Kentings
and Catgut.
Coarse and fine Cam
bricks and Lawns.
Silk, kenting, linen and
cotton Handkerchiefs of
different patterns and
colours.
Beautiful tiffany Handker
chiefs.
Black gauze Handker
chiefs.
There are on said Premites, a good new Stone Dwelf
ing-Houfe, two stories high, neatly finished; an old
Stone House and Kitchen adjoining, with good dry Cel
lars under the whole; convenient Bern, Coach-house,
Stabling for fix horses, and a Cow-boufe, &c. Good
apple and peach Orchards,- bearing F*u t of the belt
quality; together with an excellent Kitchen Warden,
which always affords an abundant supply of every kind
ufaful for a Urge family. For furtbferparticulars and
terms of sale. apply to I9AAC WIKOFF, on the pre
mises, or to PETER WIKOFF, in Philadelphia.
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HAPPINES S' in a great meafure' dependant upon
CONSTITUTION.
WH EN I refle& on the unambitious retirement,-
in which I passed the earlier part of my life, in
the Country, I cannot avoid some pain, in thinking
that those happy days are never to return. In that
retreat all nature leemed capable of affording plea
sure ; I then made no refinements on happiness, but
could be pleased with the most aukward efforts of rus
tic mirth, thought Cross purpdfes the fhigheft stretch
of human wit,- and questions and commands/ the most
rational amusement for spending the evening. Happy,
couid <o charming an illusion still continue. I find
age and knowledge only contribute to four our dis
positions. My present enjoyments may be more re
fined, but they are infinitely less pleasing. Toe plea
sure Garrick gives- can no Way compare to tnat I
received frosh a country wag/ who imitated a quaker's
sermon. The music of Mattei is dihonance, to what
I felt when our old dairy maid fuhg me into tears, with
Johnny Armstrong's last good night, or the cruelty
of Barbara Alien.
Writers of every age have endeavoured to ffiewy
that pleasure is in us, and : not in the object offered for
our amusement. If the foul be happily disposed/
every thing becomes the fubjeß of entertainment,
and distress will almost want a name. Every occur
rence passes in review, like the figures of a proces
sion ; some may be aukward, others ill-dressed ; bub
none but a fool, for this,- enraged with the master of
the ceremonies.
I remember to have once feeri a slave/ in a fortifica
tion in Flanders, who appeared no way touched at his
situation--He was maimed, deformed, and chained,
obliged to toil from the appearance of day, till night
fall ; and condemned to this for life : yet, with all
these circumflanCes ofapparent wretchedness, he Jung,
would have danced, but that he wanted a leg ; and
appeared the merriest and happiest man in all toe gar
rison. What a practical ph lofopher was here fan
l> a ppy constitution Supplied philosophy ; and, though
seemingly destitute of wisdom, he was really wife.
No reading or study had contributed to difinchant
the fairy land around him. Every thing furnifh^d him
with an opportunity for mirth ; and though some
thought him, from his iufenfibility, a fob; he was
IMMEDIATELY,
A Valuable Plantations lying on the river
Nefhammany, one mile and a half above the fer
ry, three miles from Bristol, and eighteen from the city
of Philadelphia, from whence there is good Navigation
to said Plantation ; containing 100 acres of good Land,
15 lucres of which is excellent bottom Meadow.
To be Sold and Entered upon
O R, THE
THE
Springs.
Brafi Nails.
Crooked Combs.
Hern Spoons.
Black and white narrow
and broad Lace.
Behgals and Ginghams.
An assortment of Rib
bands.
Hyfom and Bobea Tea of
the firA Quality.
A few Hogsheads of Cla-
Claret in Bottles.
Pots
Skills.
Cast B%xe*.
Window Weights.
Baks Stores, &c.
AL S O,
Same Hogsheads of extra
ordinary Indigo, with
numberleU other arti
cle# toe t«d ; ous to men
tion.
Watch Chryftalt and
, Of all the men I ever read of, the famous cardinal
de Retz possessed this happiness of temper in the high
frtrle':ee: As he was a man °' gallantry, and dg
ipifed all that wore the pedantic appearance of philo
sophy, wherever pleasure was to be fold, he was ge
nerally foremoft to r^ife the anAion. Being an uni
versal admirer of the fair sex, when he found one ladw
cruel, he instantly fell in love with another, from
whom he expected a more favourable reception ; If
too rejected nis addresses, he never thought of retiring
°I^ rtS ' r ^ pinin ^ 1F I hopelefs distress. He pert
fuaded himfelf, that instead of loving the lady, heon
ly j ancie d he bad loved her, and so all was well again.
f° rtune 7° re her angrier look, when he, at
^'° the P ° wer of his most deadly enemy,
Mazarine, and was confined a close prisoner.
in the cast l e of Valenciennes, he never attempted to
support his distress- by wisdom or philosophy/ for he
pretended to neither. He laugerf at himfelf, and his
prosecutor, and seemed infinitely pleased at his new
Situation. In this manfionfof distress, though fecludedl
from his friends, though denied all the amusements,
and even the conveniences of life,- teized every hour
by the impertinence of wretches, who were employee!
L°„ ^" d , ] ,, he , ft dl retained his good humour,
laugned at all their little spite, and Carried the jest so
b ° [ e ' e °^ e d by writing the life of the goaler.
All that philosophy cah teach, is to be stubborn or
mi % tL ^ s# The Cardinal's example
"t" me " y ' in circun ^ances of the
hi^hef t affliction, It matters not whether our good
humour be construed by others into insensibility or e
ven id)otifm; it is happiness to ourselves, and none
world ffifoff' re nis fatisfaai ° n by "hnt thr
Dick Wild-goose was one of the happiest filly fellows
1 ever knew; he was of the number of those good
natured creatures that are said to do no harm to any
but themselves Whenever Dick fell into any mist
chance he called it feeing life. If k is heaJwasbX
by a chairman, or bis pocket picked by a iharper he
C f'? f ° rted """^ b y imitating the Hibernian 'dialed
0 the one, or the more fashionable cant of the other.
"V"' ami ,/° Dick. His inattention to money
matters had inched his farther to such a degree that
the intercefhoi iof friends' in his favour, was fruitlefs.
Tne old gentleman was on his death-bed. Toe whole
amily, and DiCk-among the number, gathered round
him. I leave my second son Andrew (said the ex
frug^L^^^ wh °" e ™ e> ' and desire him to be
Andrtw/in a fofrowful tore, as is usual on thef€
occasions, prayed heaven to prolong his life and
^'^°r " himfelf.^,%
my third son, to tne care of his elder brother and
leave him beside, four thousand pounds."—" Ah fa
ther, cried Simon, in great affli&i oi r to be~ sure,
„ m %^ a T^! e y °" ltf e and health to enjoy
yourfelf. —At lafi,- turning to poor Dick, “As for
you, y ow have always been a fad dbg; you will never
come to good ; you will never be rich: I leave you a
^^ "' by a ” tater " ~ Ah fa ^&,” cries
h < any em ° tlon > " ma 7 heaven give you life arid
the im°^? y " yocrfelf.” Tuis was all the trouble
^ ^ e ""' rhoughtlefs; imprudent
Creature. However, the tendefacfs of an uncle made
amends for the negleft of a father ; Dick is now,
;ei e ^y r^. v ' ly "" Peered, but also com:
The world, in ffioft, may cr'y' otit' aV a bankrupt.
,° a W ar ' 3 at a ball ; at an author, wio laughs 'ac
the public which pronoimces him a dunce- at a gene
ral, who fmrles at the reproach of the vulgar - ora la
hy: keep ^ he s,^ o °d humour in fyite of scandal:
but such is the wisest behaviour they can possibly af
'• cer ' a 'dy a better way ro oppose calamity
y r l, patlon > than to take up the arms of reason or
resolution to oppose it ; by the fi r ft method, we forget
ur miseries; by the last, we only conce I rhem from
otners: by ftritggling with misfortunes we are sure to
^r^'™^™'™^^ '" " ie confli& The method t&
.ome off via@rtous is by running away.
They, who like him, can place themselves on that
fide of the world in which every thing appears in a ri
diculous and pleasing light, will find something in eve
ry occurrence to excite theif good humour. The most
calamitous events, either to themselves or to others
can bring no new affl dron: the whole world is to them
a theatres on which comedies only are afted. All the
bu ftle of neroifm, or the rants of ambition, serve only
to heighten the absurdity of the feene, and make the
humour mere poignant. They feel, in short, as little
angutfh ar their own distress, or the complaints of
others, as an undertaker, though dressed in black
feels at a funeral.'
such an idiot as philofophe/s might wiffi in vain, to im
itate.
FEBRUARY 13, „$^
[NUMB, 707.