The key [electronic resource] : As there are ten cards, and ten lines on every card, the following ten are the first lines on the black side of each of them, viz. Want prompts the wit, and first gave birth to - - - - A rts. Riches are a crime oftener than a - - - - D efence. Poverty is the fruit of - - - - - I dleness Wedding a woman for her beauty, is like eating a bird for its - - S inging The man who asks you many questions is a spy or a - - - C oxcomb. Good-will like a good name, is gained by many actions and lost by O ne. Good men hate to commit a fault out of the love they have to - V irtue. Ill-judg'd charity is the parent of idleness and - - - - E xcess. Lust is the unbridled horse of the soul, that has thrown its - - - R ider. The vices of age are as bad, or worse than those of - - - - Y outh.
1780
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The key [electronic resource] : As there are ten cards, and ten lines on every card, the following ten are the first lines on the black side of each of them, viz. Want prompts the wit, and first gave birth to - - - - A rts. Riches are a crime oftener than a - - - - D efence. Poverty is the fruit of - - - - - I dleness Wedding a woman for her beauty, is like eating a bird for its - - S inging The man who asks you many questions is a spy or a - - - C oxcomb. Good-will like a good name, is gained by many actions and lost by O ne. Good men hate to commit a fault out of the love they have to - V irtue. Ill-judg'd charity is the parent of idleness and - - - - E xcess. Lust is the unbridled horse of the soul, that has thrown its - - - R ider. The vices of age are as bad, or worse than those of - - - - Y outh.
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Uniform Title
Impenetrable secret
Publication Details
[London] : Printed for L. Donnelly Stationer, opposite St. Clement's Church, in the Strand; and A. McCulloh, printer, at the Bible and Lamb without Temple-Bar, [1780?]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
Description
1 sheet ; 4⁰.
Note
The key to 'The impenetrable secret', a trick of cards attributed to Horace Walpole.
Price from imprint: Price 2s.6d. Where any purchaser, to whom this key is not satisfactory, may see the method, and be made perfect in the secret in five minutes, so as to discover the thonghts [sic] of another without the key.
Title from title and beginning of text.
Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
Price from imprint: Price 2s.6d. Where any purchaser, to whom this key is not satisfactory, may see the method, and be made perfect in the secret in five minutes, so as to discover the thonghts [sic] of another without the key.
Title from title and beginning of text.
Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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English Short Title Catalog, N47015.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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