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fa the Fktntsr of A GmRAt Advirtisbr. SIR, !‘ If you'll infert the following Letter in your Paper, it 4 may induce the Curious in the learned World to * pcrufe a Work very entertaining and pleafant, and 4 oblige, Sir, Yours, kc.*To Mr. John Lcixis, in Pater-no(ler-Row, Cheapli.de,London.Mr. JOHN LEWIS, Dartmouth, Off. 15, 1749*SIR,ACCIDENTALLY reading the Advertisement of Arcana Calejlio., * excited by the Addrefs of the Title, I prefently ordered my Friend in London to fend -me one r Tfle extraordinary Degree of Pleafyre the. reading of it has given me, and the yet more expelled ftom what is more to be pu^lifhed, induces me to requeft ; ‘Advice as often as any new Publication happens, which I apprehend to be defign’d annually ; my Reafon for troubling you is, becaufe I very rarely fee any of the publick Papers, and confequently future Advertifements may cfcape my Knowledge, which I hope will excafe me.I have long ardently wiflYd to fee the Hiftorical Part of the Old Teflament, which fecms only to regard the Jewifh Difpenfation, (and upon that account too lightly regarded by the major Part of the prefent Chriftian •World) proved to be as delightful, initruflive, and as nectffary for the Knowledge of Chriliians as the New.— This Arcana Caehflia gives me the fulleft Satisfaion of. But the illumined Author, whoever he is, (is it Mr. Law r) mull expeft a confiderable Army of Gown-men to draw their Pens again# him : 1 Tis a Bleffing their. Power isprefcribed within impaflable Bounds.The Favour of^ a Line in anfwer,. .to know what Dependance f may make upon you, will very much oblige, Sir, ' ;Tour inoji Humble Scrrvant,STEPHEN PENNY. -P.S. Perhaps the Author was concerned in the Publication of IVJr. tjutcbinjln s Works ? Has he publifh’d • any other Work ? and at what Price ?. ' t L .• This Latin Book prmted'in 4to. by John Lewis abovementioncdy is fold for 6 s. unbound by Mr. John Nturje, at the Lamb oppofite K.athcrinc-ihcet in the Strand.
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General Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Nov 10, 1749
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