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BG.743.002
8 Feb 1743:11,12,21,22 (1093)
The following extract from the review of the British Nation,
being the greatest part of it so exactly parallel to our
present circumstances, the publication of it will, we doubt
not, be agreeable to the town.
Saturday, May 6. 1710. I have hitherto always tho't it an
unjust scandal, and very injurious to the true design of my
writing this paper, to say, I write for Bread.
Not but that the argument will lie with the same strength
against all the several occupations that busy the whole
world.
Thus the lawyer pleads for his bread, the soldier fights
for bread, the musicianer fiddles for bread, the players act
for bread, and, no reflection upon the tribe, the clergy
preach for bread---And where is the many does any thing, or
will do any things but for bread, that is gain?---the only
difference lies here, that this author, who they say writes
for bread, goes without it too; and tho' I have the good
fortune to amass infinite enemies, and not at all to oblige
even the men I serve---yet I defie the whole world to prove,
I have directly or indirectly gain'd or received one single
shilling, or the value of it, by the sale of this paper for
now almost four years---Honest Mr. Morphew is able to detect
me if I speak false. But this is all by the by---I may say
more to it hereafter.
[Rest is a philosophical discussion re. bread]
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