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838 Original Poctry. 
editor ofhis Pofthumous Works, are alone 
capable of executing. Lefs is known of 
his juvenile years. The following anec- 
-détes concerning him are taken from Coz- 
rector Keller's Defcription of the Imperial 
City of Efslingen, publifhed there in 1798 : 
‘Tobias Mayer’s firft inftruétor in the 
elements of the mathematical fciences, 
was—a fhoe-maker and amateur of geo- 
metry, named Kandler.—In his 16th 
year, Mayer drew a tolerably accurate plan 
(D ecember, 
of Efslingen, which was engraved of the 
fize of half a theet, at Augfburg, in 1739. 
Kaftner, who wrote his Elogy, compafed 
the following Latin verfes on his death : 
Te maris et terrz et magni fine limite celi 
Menforem cohibent, Mayere, 
Pulveris exigui prope claufum parvula tem- 
plum 
Munera: nec quidquam tibi prodest 
Rexifle errantem lunam, moviffeque fummo 
_ Sidera fixa polo, morituro ! 

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FEMALE EDUCATION AT TWO PERIODS. 
MAY. I fome fmall attention thare, 
If feniors grant me leave, 
Their education to.compare 
With that we now receive? 
Obferve then: firft they learn’d to read, 
I do not fay how well ; 
‘And learn’d to ve and fome, indeed, 
Some few, once learn’d to fpell. 
No grammar at their fchoo!s was taught, 
Such knowledge was debar’d her 3 
As ufelefs in the kitchen thought, 
As ufelefs in the larder! 
~Who never from her duty fwerv’d 
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But work’d th? appointed fxreen, 
- Her virtue and ripe fruit preferv ds 
And fick?’'d what was green. 
Thefe homely merits wou’d alone 
A choice of lovers bring her5 
Palm of ber hand as bard as fioney 
And lacercted finger. 
The finger thew'd, by needle torn, 
One prudent oces SHES ; 
The oi her pr ov'd the broom had borne 
Its put in education. 
But now, that hand that ‘¢ wou a be woa’d”’ 
Mutft be as foft as cygnet’s down; 
Not with indir: ips woken: rude, 
As it had ipun the ruflet gown. 
Let me remark; while we compare— 
The chief obje€tion made is, 
Our anceftors good boufervives were, 
The ptefent race, jine ladies. 
The fyftem fhou’d be new-arrang’d; 
Some faults there ate remov'd; 
But thofe for other faults are chan d; 
Tis alter'd, not improv'd. 
Beft fpecimens of what J treat,\ 
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In middle rank we find; 
For there the Graces oft we meet 
With Induftry combin’d! 
Now let me introduce—Good Ja! 
i drop my pen; deicription faijs—~ 
Miis—come home wifer than mamma, 
Prepar’a to tell Jjurprifeng tales! 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
Thinking fuch talents fhou’d be known, 
She through the peaceful village fends, 
With Mifs’s comgees, and her own, 
Invites her kins-folk and her friends. 
Mifs on her mother paffes jefts, 
Who comes with fauce-boat in her hand, 
And prays the pardon of her guefts; - 
<¢ Her maid,” the fays, ** don’t underfiand :* 
‘¢ She ncuer was before in place.” 
“¢ Law, Ma!” fays Mits, © that is fa 
“LANNY ! 
Before I woud fo burn my face} 
ce You might have any thing for money.” 
Mifs langhs, when Mother’s at a lofs, * 
And pertly tells her, fhe is wrong 5 
Fach has connection with the fauce, 
The mother’s hand, the daugbter’s tongue! 
And while fhe fees fer opening mind 
By novels ev’ry day enriching, 
To culinary arts confin’d, 
She triumphs in the kitchen! 
John Bull then thought her richly gracd 
(Of learned women wond’rous thy), 
Who coud, with economic tafte, 
Hath, your calf’s-head, or make a pye! 
Had we liv’d in thofe days of eating, 
I own my project wou’d be bafii’d; 
My book of other fcience treating 
I clofe; and fiudy Mrs. Rajfald. 
How much refin’d is now the mode 
Of this once eating nation 5 
What gravies, fauces, foups, were ftow’d 
In ew ry corporation ! 
.6€ No riot dooms the lamb to” bleed,” 
No fith forfakes the filver tide, 
No cormorants are there to feed 5 
Lord, no! all that is laid afide. 
Does any doubt this truth? Why, then 
Ay char a&er is undone 5 
Afk the Lord Mayor and Begs 
And Livery of London. 
And ¢rinking too! how fam?d was hey 
That wv right man, with pride elate, 
If b umper ply’d, his eyes coud fee 
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