Citation - Norwich Packet: 1776.10.28

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Index Entry Lyric, moral [beg] Why toils the world so eager after same? 
Location Norwich 
Citation
NP.776.047
21-28 Oct 1776:41 (4/161)
THE VANITY OF MORTAL THINGS.
Why toils the world so eager after same?
Glory, at best is but an empty name,
Precarious as Chineses brittle ware.
Fleeting as bubbles blown into the air.
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Generic Title Norwich Packet 
Date 1776.10.28 
Publisher Trumbull, John 
City, State Norwich, CT 
Year 1776 
Bibliography B0033028
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