Some earn for their children, fome earn for their wife.

But I never earned any thing but kickings in my life.

And kickings I will earn, earn, carn,

But I make myself ridiculous, make mif

chief and fmall beer,

And mischief and beer I'll make, I'll

I walk about and ole and lounge with genth men, My arms are the poor-box, the pistol and

the pen. And the pistol and the pen I'll ufe, I'll ufe, &c.

I wrote against old Keogh the most cutting paragraphs,

And when the rafcal reads them, God damn me but he laughs..

He laughs, he laughs, he laughs, God dama me but he laughs.

What is the moft deadly fin in a Manager A. Humbugging the public-Does ours never do this? What are a Manager's greatest acts of meannefs?-A. Oppreffing the poor performers, and paying large fums and giving plenty of orders for hireling puffs in the newspapers. Does ours ever do either?

What ought a Manager's private conduct to be?-A. With that we have nothing to do.

STORY OF PAULINA,

ple, had conceived a mighty paffion for her, and earnestly defired her company there on a certain night. The lady charmed with this extraordinary fort of amour, being no less thana divine courtship, as thethought, acquainted her husband with it, who was as fond of being a cuckold by an imaginary deity, as fome of the Indians are at préfent by their brachmans. The appointed night being come, Paulina makes hafte to the

THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS, temple, where the roguish priests had Decius ready, who as foon as the lamps were removed appeared to h's beloved Paulina, and under the character of the god Anubis, debauched her without any refiftance. The deluded lady returned in the morning, highly honoured, as the thought, but Decius meeting her a little after tenewed his former fuit, which the rejected as ufual, whereupon he told her in an upbrating manner, that the was not fo coy the other night in the temple of Iis where he enjoy ed her for one fourth of the fum that he had he had formerly offered her. The poor lady being forprized to find that the entertained a lewt adulterer initead of a fuppofed divinity, tore her hair, rent her cloathes, and difcovered the cheat to her husband, who complaining thereof to the Eperor Tiberius, he condemned the priefts and Ida to be hanged, ordered the temple to be pulled down, the ftatue of nubis to be thrown into the Tiber, and ecius Mundis to be banished. Thus that famous temple was demolished, and the convent of priests destroyed, for being pimps to the infatiable luit of a noble Roman, whit he himself was banished from his country which he had pollu ted, and Ida, his bawd, was punished as every one of the trade ought to be.

Paulina, a Roman lady, wife to Saturninus, a nobleman of Rome, of whom Decius Mundis, another Roman of quality, became fo enamoured that he tempted her by bribes, and all other methods imaginable, to comply with his luftful defign, offering her no lefs than one hundred thoufand drachmas, which is computed at fix thousand pounds flerling. All this, however, was unable to feduce her. This vicious palion of Decius Mun dis was at length known by Ida, his father's fervant maid, who undertook This cure for twenty-five thousand drachmas, which the effected thus: Having understood that the lady was particularly addicted to the worthip of the Heathen goddess Ifis, whobada temple at Rome, the therefore on applying to the pricfts, prom fed them twenty-five thousand drachmas if they could fo contrive it that Decius Thould enjoy the lady in the temple; the one half in hand, the other upon the performance of the bargain. The priefts overcome by the largenefs of the fum, undertook to accomplish the iniquity, and laid the plot in the folTowing manner: The eldest of them, when the lady came to the temple, accofted her, and pretended that the god Anubis, who frequented the tem

This story is to be found in Josephus.

4 DESCRIP

A DESCRIPTION OF THE

TEMPLE, 2 houfe or dwelling of God, or a building fet apart for the worship of the true God, ufed fre, quently in fcripture, to denote the tabernacle erected by Mofes; and the word tabernacle is made ufe of to denote the temple built by Solomon. After the Lord had revealed to David that Jerufalem was the place he had chofen, in which to fix his dwelling, this pious prince began to think of executing the defign he had projected, of preparing a temple for the Lord, that might be fomething worthy of his Divine Majefty. He opened his mind to the prophet Nathan, (Reg. ii. 7. 2.) declaring to him, that he thought it a fcandal for him to dwell in a houfe of cedar, whereas the ark of the Lord was as yet in a tent of skins. But the Lord did not think it fit that David fhould execute this defign, however laudable it was; he acquainted David, by the prophet above mentioned, that this honor was referved for Solomon, his fon and fucceffor, who was to be a peaceable prince; for as to himself, he had thed much blood in the wars he had waged. Therefore God accepted of the good intentions of David; and David applied himself to the collecting great quantities of gold, filver, brass and iron, and fuch materials as were neceffary for the accomplishment of this great undertaking.

part was towards the Weft. The

TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM. authors of the first book of Kings and the fecond of Paralipomenon, have chiefly made it their bufinefs to defcribe the temple, properly fo called, that is, the fanctuary, the fan&tum, and the apartments belonging to them; as alfo the veffels, the implements, and the crnaments of the mole, without giving any defcription almost of the court and open areas which, however, made a principal part of the grandeur of this auguft edifice. But Ezekiel has fupplied this defect by the exact plan he has delineated of thefe neceffary parts. Indeed it mult be owned, that the temple, as defcribed by Ezekiel, was never restored after the captivity of Babylon, according to the model and the menfurations that this prophet has given of it. But as the measures he fets down for the fanctum and fanctuary, are within a fmail matter the fame with thofe of the temple of Solomon, and as this prophet was himself a prieft, had feen the firft temple, it is to be fuppofed that the defcription he gives of the temple of Jerufalem is the fame as that of the temple of Solomon.The ground plot upon which the temple was built was a fquare of fix hundred cubits or twenty-five thousand Paris royal feet. (Ezekiel xlv. 2) This fpace was encompaffed with a wall of the height of fix cubits, and of the fame breadth. Beyond this wall was the court of the Gentiles, being fifty cubits wide. After this was feen a great wall, which encom. paffed the whole court of the Children of Ifrael-this wall was a fquare of five hundred cubits. The court of Ifrael was an hundred cubits iniquare, and was encompaffed all round with magnificent galleries, fupported by two or three rows of pillars. It had four gates or entrances, one to the Eaft, another to the Weft, a third to the North, and the fourth to the 2 K

Solomon laid the foundations of the temple, in the year of the world 2992, before Chrift 1008, and it was finished in the year of the world 3000. iii.Reg. 8. The place that was pitched upon for erecting this magnificent fructure, was one fide of Mount Sion, called Moriah. Its entrance or frontispiece ftood towards the Eaft, and the most holy and most retired Clober, 1810.

South;

South; they were all of the fame
form and largeness, and each had an
afcent of feven steps. The court was
paved with marble of divers colours,
and had no covering; but the people,
in cafe of need, could retire under the
galleries that were round about. The
court of the priests was placed in the
midft of the court of the people, and
was a perfect square, having every fide
the length of an hundred cubits; it
was encompaffed without by a great
wall of an hundred cubits in the
fquare; and all within were covered
galleries, and apartments round about.
These apartments were to lodge the
priests in, and to lay up fuch things
as were neceffary for the ufe of the
temple. There were but three ways
to come in, to the Eaft, to the North,
and to the South, and they went to
it by an afcent of eight fteps. Before,
and over against the gate of the court
of the priests, in the court of Ifrael,
was erected a throne for the king,
being a magnificent alcove, where the
king feated himself when he came in.
to the temple. Within the court of
the prics, and over againft the fame
Eaftern gate, was the altar of burnt-
offerings, of twelve cubits fquare, ac-
cording to Ezekiel xliii. 12, 13; or
of ten high and twenty broad, accord-
ing to the fecond book of Paralipo-
menon, chap. iv. 1. they went up to
it by ftairs on the Etern fide.

Beyond this, and to the Weft of the altar of burnt offerings, was the temple, properly fo called; that is to fay, the fanctuary, the fanctum, and the porch or entrance. The porch was twenty cubits wide, and fix cubits deep-its gate was fourteen cubits wide. The fanctum was forty cubits wide and twenty deep-there ftood the golden candlestick, the table of fhew-bread, and the golden altar upon which the incenfe was offered. The fan&tuary was a fquare of twenty cubits-there was nothing

in the fanctuary but the Ark of the Covenant which included the Tables of the Law. Round the fanctum and fanctuary were three stories of chambers, to the number of thirty-three: Ezekiel makes them four cubits wide; but the third Book of Kings, chap. vi. 5. allows five cubits to the firit ftory, fix to the fecond, and seven to the third.

Since the confecration of the tem ple by Solomon, this edifice fuffered many revolutions, which it is proper here to take notice of.

Sefac, King of Egypt, in the year of the world 3033, having declared war against Rehoboam, King of Ju dah, took the city of Jerufalem, and carried away the treasures of the temple. 3 Kings xiv. 25.

Joas, King of Judah, in the year 3146, got together filver and other materials; and two years after they fet about the repairs of the temple. 4 Kings xii. 4.

In 8264, Achaz, King of Judah, having called to his affistance Teglat phafar, King of Affyria, against the Kings of Ifrael and Damafcus, plundered the temple of its riches to give them to that king, and not contented with this, he prophaned the holyplace, by fetting up in it an altar like one he had seen at Damafcus, and taking away the brazen altar that Solomon had made, he also took away the brazen fea from off the brazen oxen that fupported it, and the brazen bafon from the pedeftais; laftly, he broke the facred veffels and fhut up the temple. Ezekiah, fon and fuc ceffor of Achaz, opened again and repaired the temple in the year 3278; he reftored the facrifice, and made new facred veffels for the use of the temple. But in the fourteenth year of his reign, Sennacherib, King of Affyria, having invaded Judea, Eze. kiah was forced to purchase peace at

the