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NYEP(D.752.041
30 Oct 1752:11,12 (289)
Of Great Men, From the Humourist. There are divers
enormities which are highly complained of in Great Men by an
inferior sort of people, at the same time that they imitate
them in those enormities, and even often outdo them. I
therefore, being an impartial person, and endeavour to
prove, that those gentlemen call'd Men of Quality, are not
worse than the meanest of the people. . . [1 column] A very
fine gentlemen of my acquaintance, in the Temple is so
sensible of [being followed and solicited for money], that
he is always busy when his washerwoman wants to be paid, and
makes the poor soul run after him twenty times before he has
leisure to put his hand in his pocket; at other times no
body is more fashionably idle than himself, and you may find
him huming a tune out of his window, or jaunting from one
coffee house to another, in search of engagements. . .
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