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NYEP(D.749.003
27 Mar 1749:21,22,31 (201)
The following is an extract of a pamphlet, entituled, The
Grand Concern of England explained; which, tho' designed
more particularly for the city of London, yet, like an
almanack, may indifferently serve for many other places.
There is nothing ruins the gentry and tradesmen of
England, so much, as living above their estates, or profit
arising by their trades. . . [2 column essay] Many men are
undone, partly by that and partly by the extravagences of
their good wives; who being through their husband's vanity
and indiscretion made so fine, will not stir out of doors
without a coach, and yet make such frequent and long visits,
that they spend more in coach-hire, some weeks, than the
gains of the shop come to; and abroad they get new
acquaintance, at balls, plays, or dancing schools; and,
being young, pretty, and in fine clothes, are so courted and
gallanted, that oftentimes they are persuaded into such
inconveniences, as prove fatal to their husbands. . .
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