The key As there are ten cards, and ten lines on every card, the following ten are the first lines on the black side of each of them, viz. Want prompts the wit, and first gave birth to - - - - A rts. Riches are a crime oftener than a - - - - D efence. Poverty is the fruit of - - - - - I dleness Wedding a woman for her beauty, is like eating a bird for its - - S inging The man who asks you many questions is a spy or a - - - C oxcomb. Good-will like a good name, is gained by many actions and lost by O ne. Good men hate to commit a fault out of the love they have to - V irtue. Ill-judg'd charity is the parent of idleness and - - - - E xcess. Lust is the unbridled horse of the soul, that has thrown its - - - R ider. The vices of age are as bad, or worse than those of - - - - Y outh
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[London]
Printed for L. Donnelly Stationer, opposite St. Clement's Church, in the Strand; and A. McCulloh, printer, at the Bible and Lamb without Temple-Bar
1780, [1780?]
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, N47015. - Price from imprint: Price 2s.6d. Where any purchaser, to whom this key is not satisfactory, may see the method, and be made perfect in the secret in five minutes, so as to discover the thonghts [sic] of another without the key. - Reproduction of original from Huntington Library. - The key to 'The impenetrable secret', a trick of cards attributed to Horace Walpole. - Title from title and beginning of text |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (1 sheet) 4° |