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BG.758.050
4 Sep 1758:41 (179)
Thursday, August 31, 1758. This day published, number 1 of
The New-England Magazine Of knowledge and pleasure;--to be
continued monthly, by Urbanus Filter.
[poem:]
Prodesse & delectare.--E Pluribus Unum.
Alluring profit with delight we blend:
One out of many to the public send.
Boston: printed and sold by Benjamin Mecom, at the New
Printing-Office, near the Court-House.
[price 8d, or twelve coppers]
containing, and to contain,
Old-fashion writings and select essays,
Queer notions, useful hints, extracts from plays,
Relations wonderful, and psalm, and song,
Good-sense, wit, humour, morals, all ding-dong;
Poems, and speeches, politics, and news,. . .
What some will like, and others refuse;
Births, deaths, and dreams, and apparitions too;
With some thing suited to each different God,
To humour him, and her, and me, and you.
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