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NYGWPB.767.048
3 Dec 1767:11, 12 (1300)
Reading Parker's Gazette a few days ago, I was much pleased
with a paper called the mirror, on the subject of beauty;
the author I think discovers a knowledge of human nature, at
the same time that his concern to correct it. . . .
The advantages of the theatre; coming under two heads;
instruction and amusement---The objections raised against it
are drawn, first, from the expence attending it, and
secondly, from an ill-grounded supposition, that it tends to
the corruption of morals. [Article continues for 1 1/2
columns more in discussion of this last sentence, including
reference to Shakespeare.]
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