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AWM.737.028
14-21 Jul 1737:11 (916)
Extract of a letter from Paris. We have at present here,
not only an illustrious, but most prodigious pattern of
goodness to the afflicted and unfortunate: He seems to be
charity itself come to bless this metropolis and Kingdom in
a human shape. The person I mean is the Duke of Orleans,
who, if his means were equal to the benevolence of his mind,
would enrich all the poor in the universe. . . [13 lines]
It was judiciously remark'd by a subject of Great Britain,
that the French quality give twice as much each year to the
poor as they throw away on operas, masquerades and
assemblies; but whether the British quality imitate them in
so laudable an atonement for their vices, is what we are no
judge of on this side the water. . .
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