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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

Mean temperature of the thermometer  at 8 A.M.             71   37
  Do. do. of the do. at 1 P.M.                               73   97
  Do. do. of the do. at 6 P.M.                               68   74
  Do. do. of the whole month                                 71    6
  Greatest monthly range between the 12th and 26th           25   25
  Do. do. in 24 hours the 3d                                  9   50
  Warmest day the 26                                         84
  Coldest do. the 12                                         59   50

  10 Days it rained. A large quantity has fallen this month.
  15 do.  it was clear at 8 1 and 6 o’clock.
   6 do.  it was cloudy at do.  do.
  23 do.  the wind was light at do.
  16 do.  the wind was to the westward of north and south.
   3 times it thundered and lightned in this month.


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      +For the New-York Weekly Magazine.+

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         OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND VIRTUOUS.

    In days of old, historians write,
      There liv’d a maid of wond’rous charms,
    Whose very name would oft invite
      And pre-engage the heart that warms.
    The gods of yore did try each suit
      To win this all-alluring fair;
    But neither men nor gods could do’t,
      She listen’d callous to their pray’r.

    In modern days we too are blest
      With Nature’s best, completest art,
    Her breast is with the virtues drest,
      And dignity exalts her heart.
    If gods cou’d once more live again,
      And eye the Clara of our day,
    Their very souls would burst with pain,
      And sigh alas! for death’s decay.

  Ye virtuous youth who search for worth,
  And look with hate on idle mirth,
  Direct your steps where Clara lives,
  And you may get what virtue gives.

  LUCIUS.

PINE-STREET, June 28th, 1796.


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  [[For sources, see the end of the second installment.]]


     _For the +New-York Weekly Magazine+._

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     AN EPISTLE FROM OCTAVIA TO ANTONY.
               +From the French.+

                 _BY MATILDA._

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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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