pleased; the Expectation of a future Good, which shall never befal them,
draws their Eyes off of a present Evil. Thus they are kept and
establish'd in Subjection, Peace and Obedience, and he in Greatness,
Wealth, and Power: So you see the Politician is, and must be a Quack in
State Affairs and the Quack (no doubt if he thrives) is an Errant
Politician in Physick._

_FINIS._

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The
_BRITISH_
ACADEMY:

being a
New-Erected SOCIETY

for the
Advancement of Wit and Learning:

with
Some few OBSERVATIONS upon it.

----_Hae +Tibi+ erunt Artes:_
_Pacisq; imponere Morem._ Virgil.

_LONDON_:

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Price Two-pence.

The

_British_ Academy, _&c._

Such is our Case at present, that if we have a Mind to be agreeably
entertain'd with the State of our own Affairs, we must look into Foreign
Papers, rather than into those that are publish'd here by Authority; and
therefore I often read the _Dutch_ Prints with the same Eagerness and
Pleasure, as the _French_ at _Paris_ read the _Post Boy_. If we have no
good News for Our selves here, we may sometimes find some from
_Holland_; and what is good, is so rare, that I had rather have it from
any Place, than not at all. I was so delighted with the following
Paragraph in the _Amsterdam_ Gazette of the 20th of _May_ 1712. _N.S._
that I cou'd not help transcribing, and turning it into _English_, that
such Comfortable Tidings to _Men of Obscure Merit_, might be convey'd
all over the Nation. And I shall endeavour to prove, that the Design
there mention'd, is much likelier to succeed in _England_, than ever it
was in _France_.

The Words of the _Dutch_ Gazette are as follows, in the Article from
_London_.

_Il s'est forme ici depuis peu +une Societe pour recompenser &
encourager le Merite, par report aux beaux Arts+. Elle doit etre
composee de 21 Membres, dont il y en a deja 19 d'Arretez savoir les
Ducs de Beaufort & d'Ormond; les Comites d'Arran & d'Orrery: les Lords
Duplin, Gendre du Grand Tresorier; Harley, Fils dudit Tresorier;
Lansdowne, Secretaire des Guerres; Masham & Bathurst: les Chevalier
Windham: Messieurs St. Jean, Secretaire d'Etat: