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NYJ-P.780.005
21 Feb 1780:12 (1865)
On the day appointed for the last general fast, in England,
the reverend and learned Dr. Price, F.R.S. delivered a most
excellent discourse to a congregation of Protestant
dissenters at Hackney. . . [The scene is set by biblical
description of events leading to the destruction of Sodom
and Gomorrah] But now, though in a condition unspeakably
worse, the Kingdom is insensible. We fly to feasts and
amusements, and dance the round of pleasure. The same
measures go on. . . [5 more lines] But such torpors, like
mortifications before death, have been the common
forerunners of calamity. Seldom has it happened, when
debauchery and extravagance, and a pompous manner of living,
have come to their height, that they have not been followed
by a sudden transition to slavery and misery. . . [more]"
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