The key : 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Impenetrable secret

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puzzles--Early works to 1800.

Puzzles.

Physical Description:

1 sheet ; 4⁰

Place of Publication:

[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?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

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.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N47015.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.