THE

DIARIAN MISCELLANY:

CONSISTING

OF

All the Useful and Entertaining Parts, both Mathe-
matical and Poetical, extracted from the

From the beginning of that work in the year 1704,
down to the end of the year 1773.

By CHA. HUTTON, F. R. S.
Profeffor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy.

LONDON:

Printed for G. ROBINSON and R. BALDWIN in Pater-
nofter Row, 1775.

W. W. Beman gt. 5-25-1923

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THE

POETICAL PARTS

OF THE

LADIES' DIARIES.

The *AUTHOR's PREFACE to the First DIARY.

To the Fair Sex,

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NGLAND has never flourished more at home, or been more fuccefsful against her enemies abroad, than under the reigns of protestant queens. How did every thing almoft fucceed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth of bleffed memory? She baffled the Pope, and his excommunication; ruin'd the Spanish Armado, destroyed their harbours, fupported her allies in their distresses, and continued her fucceffes till her death. But great Anne, our glorious Queen, has in one year, done more than ever any prince has done before, in fuch a space of time fhe has carried all before her, by her forces by fea and land; has been fuccefsful in all her treaties, is courted by all her allies, has given more towards the defraying of the public debts than ever any prince has done before; is become, as it were, the great Arbitrator of peace and war: God and Nature feem to take her part, and profper all fhe fets her hand to: and to fay no

:

Mr John Tipper, of Coventry.

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