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INOCULATED COW-POX, : 
NOT CONTAGIOUS 5 
and, when properly 
conduéted, uniformly 
MILD, INOFFEN- 
SIVE, free from 
PAIN OF DANGER, 
andan IFFALLIBLE 
PREVENTIVEOf the 
SMALL- POX. 
! 
NEVER FATAL. 
During a long feries of Years, the Cow- 
Pox, accidentally received, has been con- 
fidered as a PRESERVATIVE againft any 
future attack of the smMati-Ppox. Many 
Perfons in’the dairy-countries, who nave 
had the former in their youth, have re- 
mained to old age unfufceptible of the 
latter. 
s 
1. The Inoculated. Cow Pox is attended by 
no Danger ; Mat a 
2. Produces a Puffufeon the inoculated Part 
only 3 
° Gee. neither Confinement, 
. Lofs of Time, nor 
, Expenfe. 
, Demands no other Precautions than fuch 
as refpect the Condud? of the Inocula- 
tron : 
Requires no Medicine ; 
8. Leaves na Deformity nor Disfizurations and 
Excites no fubjequent Difeajes. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
SBSERVATIONS upon the THEORY adopt- 
éd by MR. BURKE im bis EXAMINA- 
TION of the EFFECTS produced upon 
the MinD by WORDS. 
Concluded from our laf. 
CANNOT pafewithout a comment what 
Mr. Burke obferves prefently after thefe 
initances——** If I fay, I fhall go to Italy 
next fummer, I am well underitood—yet 
¥ believe nobody has by this painted upon 
his imagination the exaét figure of the 
fpeaker pafling by land or water, or both; 
fometimes on horfeback, fometimes in 
a carriage, with al] the particulars of the 
journey—Still Jefs has he an idea of Italy, 
the country to which I propofe to go; or 
of the greennefs of the fields, and ripen- 
ing of the fruits, and the warmth of the 
air, with the change to this from a diffe- 
rent feafon, which are the ideas for which 
the word /ummer is fubftituted; but leat 
of all has he any idea of the word zext, 
for this word ftands for the idea of many 
fummers, with the exclufion of all but 
one: and furely the man who fays 
* Next fummer,’ has no images of fuch a 
facceffion and fuch an exclufion.” This 
really proves nothing—it is wandering 
from the point——he is determined, becaule 
words will not reprefent a great variety 
of ideas, for which they do ot fiazd, 
to deny them the power of raifing ideas 
at all. If I fay, I tha]l go to Italy, it is 
not neceffary that all the imeges Mr. 
urke has enumerated fhould be pre- 
fented to the imagination, in order to 
prove that the words raife the ideas they 
fiand for—Certainly not--it is enough 
that the firuation of Italy fhould be com. 
rehended—it is al] the words io this place 
amply—Nor is it to be expefted that the 
mode of travelling is to be conveyed to 
the mind, when not one fingle word con- 
cerning it was. delivered. The obferva- 
tion upon the word zext is as trifling : 
there needs but to be determined what 
fummer is referred to in the difcourfe 5 
and which will be the next, is obvious 
enough. 
Our next examination is of what he 
fays with refpeét to poetry—* So little 
does poetry depend for its effe&t on the 
power of raifing fenfible images, that I 
ara convinced it would lofe a very ¢on- 
fiderable part of its energy, if this were 
the necefflary refult of ail defcription— 
becaufe that union of affecting words 
which is the moft powerful of all poe- 
tical inftruments, would frequently lofe 
its force along with its propriety and con- 
fifiency, if the fenfible images were -al- 
ways excited.”’’ Tothis affertion I mu& 
beg to reply, that I am convinced the 
effect of poetry does greatly depend upon 
its power of raifing images; and that if 
the fexfible images were always excited, 
the union of affeting words would not 
lofe its force, propriety, and confiftency. 
Between thefe two affertions, I intreat the 
candid reader to examine what follows, 
and then judge for himfelf. Perhaps no 
one wiil deny that defcription enters largely 
into the compofition of poetry. ‘Lhe 
quettion therefore only is, whether thefe 
deicriptions raife correfponding ideas— 
Mr. Burke fays, ‘¢ If we attend coolly to 
the fenfible images which fome combina- 
tions of ideas muft form, though in them- 
felves admirably fublime, the chimeras of 
a madman cannot appear more wild and ~ 
adfurd.”” This I confider abiolutely impof- 
fible ; if the images correfpondent to the 
words are more awild and abfurd than 
the chimeras of a madman, it is bombaft 
pot fublimity——But the fact is, there are 
certain 
