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The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository: Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select Literary Productions in Prose and Verse

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The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository: Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select Literary Productions in Prose and Verse

American periodicals

When lulled in apparent security, and revelling in the round of
transitory pleasure, thine awful presence intrudes itself upon the
harrassed imagination, and bids the lofty sinner reflect on the acts of
injustice of which he has been guilty. The veil of oblivion, which with
all the precaution of vice, he has endeavoured to cast over his crimes,
thou canst in one unguarded moment cause himself to remove; his deeds of
darkness, so cautiously enveloped with the specious garb of
dissimulation and hypocrisy, are frequently by thee laid open to the
scrutinizing eye of justice. His most secret recesses thou canst
penetrate, his every joy embitter, and render him who was once hardened
in iniquity, susceptible to the slightest emotions of fear. The man who
once was callous to the tender plaints of misery and injured innocence,
will, when under thy powerful influence, start at a shadow, tremble at
an “unreal mockery,” and imagine the most trivial sound a solemn summons
of retribution.--Such, O conscience! is the form in which thou visitest
the child of iniquity; such the shape in which thou approachest the
votary of vice; how happy then the man, who void of guile, dreads not
thy reproaches: who, supported by the consciousness of unspotted
innocence, enjoys uninterrupted serenity and peace of mind; whose
slumbers are undisturbed by the phantoms of a disordered imagination,
and who looks forward with the ardour of hope and expectation to the
time when the virtues and vices of mankind shall receive their just
reward.

  ALEXIS.

    NEW-YORK _Aug. 22, 1796_.


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  EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT OF JEALOUSY.

Justina was esteemed the finest woman in Rome, but had the misfortune to
marry a jealous headed husband, who had no other cause of suspicion, but
that she was very beautiful. His disease increasing, for want of
prudence he grew desperate, and seeing her stoop at a certain time to
pull off her shoe, showed her wonderful white neck, and a fit of
jealousy seizing him, he drew his sword and at one blow cut off her head
from her body.


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            CHARACTER OF A RICH MAN.

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General

The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository: Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select Literary Productions in Prose and Verse

American periodicals

When lulled in apparent security, and revelling in the round of
transitory pleasure, thine awful presence intrudes itself upon the
harrassed imagination, and bids the lofty sinner reflect on the acts of
injustice of which he has been guilty. The veil of oblivion, which with
all the precaution of vice, he has endeavoured to cast over his crimes,
thou canst in one unguarded moment cause himself to remove; his deeds of
darkness, so cautiously enveloped with the specious garb of
dissimulation and hypocrisy, are frequently by thee laid open to the
scrutinizing eye of justice. His most secret recesses thou canst
penetrate, his every joy embitter, and render him who was once hardened
in iniquity, susceptible to the slightest emotions of fear. The man who
once was callous to the tender plaints of misery and injured innocence,
will, when under thy powerful influence, start at a shadow, tremble at
an “unreal mockery,” and imagine the most trivial sound a solemn summons
of retribution.--Such, O conscience! is the form in which thou visitest
the child of iniquity; such the shape in which thou approachest the
votary of vice; how happy then the man, who void of guile, dreads not
thy reproaches: who, supported by the consciousness of unspotted
innocence, enjoys uninterrupted serenity and peace of mind; whose
slumbers are undisturbed by the phantoms of a disordered imagination,
and who looks forward with the ardour of hope and expectation to the
time when the virtues and vices of mankind shall receive their just
reward.

  ALEXIS.

    NEW-YORK _Aug. 22, 1796_.


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  EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT OF JEALOUSY.

Justina was esteemed the finest woman in Rome, but had the misfortune to
marry a jealous headed husband, who had no other cause of suspicion, but
that she was very beautiful. His disease increasing, for want of
prudence he grew desperate, and seeing her stoop at a certain time to
pull off her shoe, showed her wonderful white neck, and a fit of
jealousy seizing him, he drew his sword and at one blow cut off her head
from her body.


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      +For the New-York Weekly Magazine.+

                   *   *   *

            CHARACTER OF A RICH MAN.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository: Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select Literary Productions in Prose and Verse

The New-York Weekly Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository: Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select Literary Productions in Prose and Verse

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