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BNL.724.005
5-12 Mar 1724:11-61 (1050)
There having lately been great endeavours used by a sort of
people (formerly unknown to this and the other provinces of
New-England ) to debauch the minds of unheeding youth, as to
their religion, by divers printed pamphlets, and their
loyalty by more private practices, it seems not unseasonable
to publish from the Political State of Sept. last two of the
celebrated British Cato's [lacubrations], being as follows,
[31] . . [15 lines] Why organs and so much musick, so many
singing men and singing boys; but to attract the eyes and
ears, and to a muse the understandings of the gaping herd,
and to make them forget their senses, and the plain natural
religion of the Gospel, and to engage men and ladies of
pleasure in the interests of so agreeable a devotion? . . .
CATO.
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