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When Prudence guides the Search axpect to find Truths fitted to improve A Curious Mind

THE

ondon Magazine

Gentleman's

Monthly Intelligencer.

VOL XXII

For the Year 1753.

MAGAZINE

LONDON

Multum in Parvo.

Printed for R Baldwin at the Rofe in Pater Noster Row.

T. Kitchin Seng

THE

PREFACE.

D

ID not Custom and Prefcription plead for it, an annual Preface to a Work, fo well known, approved, and established, as the LONDON MAGAZINE, would be totally unneceffary, as it must generally be the fame Thing over and

over again, like writing an Ode to the SUN

New

every Year: Which though in itself a noble Subject, and what for Three or Four Years would afford great Variety of Entertainment, yet if purfued for Twenty Years together, would certainly grow dull, trite, and difgufting. For as the Poet who fhould write on the SUN, after having confidered, and difplayed the glorious Nature and Properties of its Light, the wondrous Powers of its prolifick Heat, the Change and Renewal of Seasons, and the furprizing Variety and Beauty of those numerous Productions which every Month owe their Birth to its enlivening Rays, muft certainly, in Time, find his Subject fo exhausted that he will be obliged

obliged to repeat the fame Words he hath

son, and to tread in the Steps he hath trodden bore: So the Writer of fuch an annual Preface as thi, atur above Twenty Years Travel, finds it equally difficuit and perplexing to strike out any Thing new in fo beaten a Path. However, let us take up again the preceding Allufion, and try what we can do with it. APOLLO, or the SUN, in a Mythological View, is the GOD of WIT. As fuch he is our PATRON; as fuch we pay him Homage and Daily Adoration. The Twelve Months are the twelve immortal Priefts who wait around his Throne in varied Vestments, presenting to his Hands the Hecatombs of Wit, which we twelve Times a Year felect, a grateful Offering to the MUSES, who compofe his Court; and who in Return for this agreeable Prefent, implore their Patron to inspire our Friends with every useful Art, with every Grace and Elegance of Compofition, and with the trueft Tafte and Judgment to direct their Choice in this COLLECTION. Such a friendly Correfpondence as this being fettled with the Court of APOLLO, where can the Publick expect to find fo polite, fo learned, fo elegant, fo various an Entertainment as in the LONDON MAGAZINE?

EXPLANATION of the FRONTISPIECE.

C

URIOSITY, guided by PRUDENCE, infpecting the LONDON MAGAZINE, placed on the Back of TIME, wherein HISTORY is recording the moft remarkable Events.