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 THE GUARDIAN.

N° 50.

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madverſions on them, 'till I ſee ſome ſymptoms of amendment '. the authority of his fon, the rev. George Berkeley, formerly
 * This paper, Nº 49, is aſcribed to biſhop Berkeley, on

ſtudent of Chriſt-church, and vicar of Bray in Oxfordſhire. See Guard. N° 58.


 * At Mrs. Hawſkbee's, A Courſe of Mechanical and

Experimental Philoſophy in four parts, viz. mechanics, hy droſtatics, pneumatics, and optics, by John Theophilus De

faguliers, of Hart-hall, in Oxford, A. M. The terms a guinea on ſubſcription , and another guinea the third night of the courſe.

Catalogues of the experiments to be hadof

Mr. Defaguliers at the French ſchool in Iſlington. Guard. in folio, Nº 47.

N° 50. Friday, May 8, 1713. BY STEELE.

O rus! quando ego te afpiciam ? HoR. 2 Sat. vi. 60.

O ! when ſhall I enjoy my country ſeat ? CRtech.

The perplexities and diverſions, recounted in

the following letter, are repreſented with ſome pleaſantry; I ſhall therefore make this epiſtle the entertainment of the day. · TO NESTOR IRONSIDE, ESQ. SIR ,

The time of going into the country I am extremely enlivened with near, drawing

the agreeable memorial of every thing that con tributed to my happineſs when I was laſt there.

In the recounting of which, I ſhall not dwell fo