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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 05, 1774
Page
2
A fragment from a dialogue where E of H and E of R debate composing a manifesto to reveal political hypocrisy. Characters mock philosophers and Voltaire, discuss using old terms to mask aims, and reference Alexander Pompey Cesar and Shaftesbury as examples.
The text references M p t s remarks and an opium experiment on the soul linked to the academy of Ben. It mentions a chapter on ocel in a book titled Oceconomica and discusses metadesy in Leibnitzian and Wolfian philosophy as elements of all beings.
A heated dispute over a church rectory led to an anonymous bribe attempt of 3000 guineas for Dr D to be appointed to St G s. An authoring hand was traced to a clerk, denying obligation, while Lady A sought intercession. The case reached the Queen’s Palace and Dr D faced removal from the king’s list, with further judicial steps anticipated.
Anecdote recounts Mr Love of Drary land Theatre who, amid Sir Robert Walpole’s era, wrote pamphlets in support of the minister. Sir Robert rewarded the author for Pope like works, but Love’s loyalty and levee attendance left him unpaid and forced to seek other work after his pen was no longer used in his defense.
In Grosn's ANTIQUITIES touring Minster Church on the Isle of Shepey Kent, the Sir Robert de Shurland knightly monument is described a cross legged knight in armour with a heraldic shield and an armed page. The horse head vane and local lore explain the church’s name and a moral tale about gratitude to a faithful horse with a Queen Elizabeth voyage twist and a witch’s warning while a skull and grave misadventure punctuate the tale.
Genevan paper laments the passing of Dr ASKEW and recalls Death’s parade of maladies once driven back by his care. The bell mourns, ground laments, and the tyrant Death is astonished as plague fever asthma and gout appear to heed his call no longer.
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