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NYM(G.756.002
5 Jan 1756:21 (178)
From the Westminster Journal. To Thomas Touchit, Esq . . .
When I reflect on the uncertainty of human life, and the
miseries which are attendant on the most serene condition of
it, I am not a little surprised, that the healthy and
vigorous should prefer a life of effeminacy and inactivity,
to the glorious labours of a martial employment.--The
Romans, instead of wasting their strength by veneral
excesses and unmanning themselves at balls and masquerades,
exercised their limbs in the palestrae, and sharpned their
understanding in the circus. . .
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