The Gentleman's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 3

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THE
Gentleman's Magazine:
Or, TRADER's
Monthly Intelligencer.

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Numb. III. for MARCH, 1731.

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CONTAINING,

I. A View of the Weekly Essays and Controversies. viz. A Plea for the Jews; for and against Englishing Law-Proceedings, Of Applause; Civil Liberty; Inconstancy; Soldiers; Solitude; Impudence; Orator Henley; Partiality to Children; Government; K. James I. Corruption; Sedition; Happiness; Coffee-Grounds; Pleasure; Education; Opinions; Beggars; Grievances; E. B-—l Esq; Ld O--d, Ld B--ke.

II. Remarks on Impropriations, and on the Bill in Parliament concerning Tythes.

III. Rules for valuing Bar-Silver, and turning the Course of Exchange to Advantage.

IV. A TABLE shewing the Stamps requir'd to all Instruments or Writings whatever.

V. Method to write on Bank-Notes to prevent Mail-robbing.

VI. Accounts of Malefactors.

VII. Foreign and Domestick Occurrences, Deaths, Births, Marriages, Preferments, Prices of Goods and Stocks, Bankrupts declar'd.

VIII. Books, &c. publish'd.

IX. Observations in Gardening, and a List of Fairs for the Season.

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By SYLVANUS URBAN of Aldermanbury, Gent.

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Prodesse & Delectare.

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The Second Edition.

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CONTENTS.

A Plea for the Jews,	p. 97
Law-hands, and Law-language, the Benefit of	98
———the Absurdity of,	120
Of popular Applause,	ibid.
Almanacks, Hottentots, Bigamy and Manslaughter,	99
Of Liberty,	ibid.
Causes of the Intricacy, Expence, and Confusion of Law-Proceedings,	100
Of Inconstancy; a Comparison; A recommendation of Mr. Pless and his Wife,	101
———Answer to two of these	103
Considerations on three Political Pamphlets,	ibid.
On limiting the time Soldiers are to serve in the Army	ib.
———burlesq'd	114
Of Solitude,	102
Extract of the Register of Parliament at Paris, concerning Libels	103
Of Impudence,	104
Partiality in Parents to their Children	104
Of Popular Discontent,	105
Remarks on the Reign of K. James I.	106
Of Englishing the Law,	ibid.
Of Corruption,	107
Of Republican Principles,	108
Criticism on Hudibras; Charitable Corporation; Orator Henley,	ibid.
Reflections on E. B———l, Esq; and Ld B———ke	109
Of Sedition,	110
Of Coffee-Grounds,	ibid.
Remarks on a Bill depending in Parliament to prevent Suit for Tythes, &c.	111
A Rule to determine the Val. of Bar-Silver, and use	112
Collet's Course of Exchange,———the Advantage of it	121
The Earl of Oxford's Conduct confider'd,	113
Easiness of Belief, the Ground of Complaints,	113
Remarks on the Reign of K. James I.	114
History of Patriotism,	115
Of the Excise,	ibid.
Memoirs of Mrs. Oldfield's Life,	116
Of common Beggers,	ibid.
Of Pleasure,	117
Of Impropriations,	118
Of Corruption, its Causes and Remedies,	119
Of Happiness,	120
Method of writing on Bank-Notes sent by the Post to prevent robbing the Mails	122
Domestick Occurrences,	123
Deaths, Malefactors,	126, 127
Promotions	129
Marriages, Casualties,	130
Ecclesiastical Preferments	131
Bankrupts,	ibid.
Foreign Affairs,	132
A Table of Stamps,	133
Scheme of the Lottery,	134
Weekly Bills,	ibid.
Books published,	135
Prices of Goods	137
Fairs,	139
Observations on Gardening	140

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