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NYGWPB.754.005
14 Jan 1754:12,13 (572)
From the Gentleman's Magazine, of October, 1753. . . [Essay
on the "admirable Crichton]
Entertainment. . . . [6 paragraphs] These acquisitions of
learning, however stupendous, were not gained at the expence
of any pleasure which youth generally indulges, or by the
omission of any accomplishment in which it becomes a
gentleman to excel. He practised in great perfection the
arts of drawing and painting, he was an eminent performer in
both vocal and instrumental music, he danced with uncommon
gracefulness, and on the day after his disputation at Paris,
exhibited his skill in horsemanship before the court of
France, where, at a public match of tilting he bore away the
ring upon his lance fifteen times together. . . [6
paragraphs]
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