Athenian Oracle:

BEING AN ENTIRE

COLLECTION

Of all the VALUABLE

QUESTIONS

AND

ANSWERS

IN THE

Old ATHENIAN MERCURIES.

Intermixed with many CASES

In DIVINITY, HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY,
MATHEMATICKS, LOVE, POETRY,
Never before Publifh'd.

To which is added, An Alphabetical INDEX for
the speedy finding of any QUESTIONS.

By a Member of the ATHENIAN SOCIETY.
VOL. III.

The Third Edition.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and J. KNAPTON, A. BETTESWORTH,
W. MEARS, F. FAYRAM, J. OSBORN and T. LONGMAN,
W.INNYS, and C. RIVINGTON. M.DCC.XXVIII.

LIBRARY VERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

THE

ATHENIAN

ORACLE.

Queft.

Hether the Authors of the A thenian Oracle are not Bachelors, they Speak fo obligingly of the Fair Sex? Anfw. If they are not Bache

feems to be Reafon as well as Inclination and Custom, to authorize fuch a Practice. We owe the Happiness of Society, the Defence of Nations, the best Riches of Kingdoms, which con fift in the Multitude of Inhabi

lors, they are (or wou'd be tants even the Continu

thought) Gentlemen, and all who pretend to that Name, as well as all civiliz'd Mankind, have ever treated Women with that Refpect and Tenderness which their Beauty, or at least their Sex, deferve, Nay, we may go yet further, and not only affirm, that the fierceft Nations, and most barbarous of

ance of the World, which without them, cou'd live, at furtheft, no longer than the next Age, to that Sex whom we are fo willing to oblige. Nor are we much concern'd at the Cenfures we may poffibly meet with for this Piece of Justice, from fome Men, whofe Acamong that

Sex have perhaps been of fuch a Character, that they think they may be allow'd to rail at all the Sex, becaufe fome of 'em have given 'em fo much Reafon for't.

Cannibals, have acknowledg'd quaintance
and practis'd this Piece of good
Breeding, but even the Beafts
themfelves teach it us, were
there any Fear of forgetting it,
as well as many other good
Leffons: And indeed, there
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