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N O S E N S E .

About Lives, &c.

15 Aug 1766

T
HE taste of the age has taken an imm-
mortalizing turn—Nothing to be done
now a days without a life.

Poor Dr. Johnson! threatened with as
many lives as a cat! containing all he said
—that is to say—all which he should not
have said—and all he did—that is to say—
all he spit, and eat, and coughed, and “No
more of that Hal.”

But the *divulgation* of many of this great
man’s opinions is still the *defenderatum*.—There
is not perhaps any of his biographers who
can tell what he thought of the *dancing dogs*,
or *Anderson’s Pills*, or the virtues of the ge-
nuine *Tapioca*.—It is not in human wisdom
to tell what opinion he entertained of *poł-
paper*, or perhaps divine whether he prefer-
red wax to wafers.—I blush for the igno-
rance of the age, but I do verily believe
that no man can ascertain his specific pre-
ference of *French and Windsor beans*—and, if
the Arts and Sciences were to offer a pre-
mium, all that we should be able to make
out would be, that his razors and his criti-
cisms were founded on the same *philosophical
principles*!

The phrase a good life has now a different
meaning from that in the city, which the in-
furance brokers can best explain—

Criminals have been known to sell their
bodies to the surgeons—But literary criminals
go about crying, who will buy my LIFE?

I hope that the literary judges will here-
after treat incorrigible writers, as our Old
Bailey judges treat great offenders—and
after the usual sentence of death has been
passed, add, “and your life to be given to
James Anecdote, Esq; to be by him mangled,
tortured, and anatomized, &c.

How naturally one kind of *Nonsense* begets
another!!!

A B S C o

Gardens in Honour of the Duke of York, in a fin-
lar Manner as they were to have been on the Prince
of Wales's Birth-day. Morn. Post 15 May 1786

JUBILEE REGATTA.

TO-MORROW the 16th inst. will be given by the Proprietors of VAUXHALL GARDENS a NEW WHERRY, with OARS and SCULLS, to be rowed for by Watermen who have served their Apprenticeship and follow that Profession ABOVE LONDON BRIDGE.

The Context is to be decided by the First Pair of Oars out of Seven, who are to row (in a Uniform Breefs given on the Occasion) from Blackfriars Bridge through Chelsea Bridge, and back again to a Boat moored off VAUXHALL STAIRS. The Second Oars to have TWO GUINEAS, and the Third ONE.

The above Match to be regulated by Rules, which
may be seen by applying to Mr. Robarts, near the
King's Barge-house, Lambeth, where the Wherry is
now lying.

The Boats to start at Half past Five o'Clock in
the Evening.

THE Worthy LIVERYMEN of the CITY of LONDON are desired to meet this Evening at the Paul's Head, Cateaton street, by Seven o'Clock, to consider of a proper Address to the Throne on the late providential Escape of his Majesty from being affaffinated.

To the Right Worshipful the President, the Wor-
shipful the Treasurer, and Governors of CHRIST's
HOSPITAL.

Gentlemen,

THE Favour of your Votes and Interests are most humbly and earnestly requested for

CATHERINE GREEN,

Widow of Mr. William Green, Citizen and Cooper,
your late Master at Hertford, to succeed Mrs. Lois
Gibson, your late Matron, deceased.

Having refided upwards of thirteen Years in your
Hospital at Hertford, with her late Husband, whose
Duty it was to superintend the Nurfs, as to the
Cleanlines and Diet of the Children, in which Duty
she frequently affifted, humbly prefumes ſhe is in a
great Degree acquainted with the Duties of that im-
portant Office for which ſhe solicits.

If so happy as to be honoured by your Confi-
dence, ſhe will ever confider the Welfare and Com-
fort of the Children of the Hospital as inseparable
from thofe of her own Family.

This Day is published. Price 1s.

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THE WIDOW's VOW, a FARCE, in
Two Acts; as it is acted at the Theatre-
Royal, Haymarket.