386

clusive. / [double rule] /
Baltimore: / Printed by John Hayes. / [rule]/
M, DCC, XCVII. //

Not in Evans.
DLC, MdBD, MdHi.

392

Rights of man. - By John Winter. / [rule] / Volume
the third. Number 155. Wednesday, January 6,
1797 [-Volume the fourth. No. 206, Wednesday,
December 27, 1797]
Frederick-Town (Maryland) Printed by John Winter,
at his office, in Patrick-street / ... //[1797]

folio. 42 cm. 1 folded sheet, 3 columns to a
page, in each number.
Issued weekly.
Evans 32768.
MH.

393

Searson, John, b. ca. 1750.
Art / of / contentment; / with several / en-
tertaining pieces / of / poetry, / descriptive of
the present time / in the / U. States of America./
[Ornamental rule] / By John Sears on, / formerly a
merchant of Philadelphia. / [ornamental rule] / We
to ourselves may all our wishes grant, / For noth-
ing-coveting, we nothing want; / They cannot want,
who wish not to have more; / Contented minds may
smile when counted poor. / Dryden. / [Ornamental
rule] / Phil. 4th & 11th - For I have learned, in
whatever stage / I am, therewith to be content. /
[double rule] /
Baltimore: / Printed for the author by W. Pechin.//
[1797?]

120. 17 cm.
Pages: [i-iii], iv, [v], vi, [7], 8-44, 46,45,47
150, 120 [!], 152-209, [210], 811-225, [226].
Signatures: [A]⁶ P⁶-I⁶, K⁶-T⁶ (last leaf blank)
Subscriptions taken for the Art of contentment
in 1797 - Telegraphe, June 6, 1798.
Evans assigns the date 1796,
Maryland historical society dates this "1800?"
because of the reference on page vi to the "acros-
tic on the late President." "Late President",
however, could, and probably does, refer to Wash-
ington's having lately held the office of President
The dedication, "To His Excellency George Washing-
ton," and the acrostic itself seem to have been