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AWM.745.023
16-23 May 1745:12 (1324)
[In essay entitled "The Universal Balance, " author develops
a metaphor of a scale to judge the worth of men and
nations.] . . . then I put into one of my scales, 25 petits
maitres, collected from the stage and boxes in Drury Lane
Play-house; 9 of them had been great travellers, and had
slept in a post-chaise over most part of Europe, the other
16 had been bred up under their mothers; but the experiment
had like to have prov'd fatal to them all; . . . [he sneezes
on the other side of the scale and they all come tumbling
down, ] such confusion of toupees, black-baggs, ramillies,
majors, spencers, night-caps, hats, and feathers, muffs, . .
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