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5 - Rules for a Club Formerly Established at Philadelphia (1732)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Alan Houston
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Alan Houston
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Previous question, to be answer'd at every meeting.

Have you read over these queries this morning, in order to consider what you might have to offer the Junto [touching] any one of them? viz.

  1. Have you met with any thing in the author you last read, remarkable, or suitable to be communicated to the Junto? particularly in history, morality, poetry, physic, travels, mechanic arts, or other parts of knowledge.

  2. What new story have you lately heard agreeable for telling in conversation?

  3. Hath any citizen in your knowledge failed in his business lately, and what have you heard of the cause?

  4. Have you lately heard of any citizen's thriving well, and by what means?

  5. Have you lately heard how any present rich man, here or elsewhere, got his estate?

  6. Do you know of any fellow citizen, who has lately done a worthy action, deserving praise and imitation? or who has committed an error proper for us to be warned against and avoid?

  7. What unhappy effects of intemperance have you lately observed or heard? of imprudence? of passion? or of any other vice or folly?

  8. What happy effects of temperance? of prudence? of moderation? or of any other virtue?

  9. Have you or any of your acquaintance been lately sick or wounded? If so, what remedies were used, and what were their effects?

  10. […]

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2004

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