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NYM(G.777.099
29 Dec 1777:21 (1366)
[From the Connecticut Courant, an essay begun on page 1]. .
. I want words to express the atrociousness of their crime,
and beg leave to borrow the words of a celebrated poet,
which he applies to self-murderers, in a poem stiled the
Grave, in which he says,
Unheard of tortures
Must be reserv'd for such: These herd together,
The common damn'd shun their society,
And look upon themselves as fiends less foul. [signed]
Blair.
. . . [3 paragraphs of essay continue] those words which the
above cited poet beautifully applies to the miser.
Ah cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake,
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds,
First curs'd in this, then damn'd in that to come. [signed]
Blair.
[The essay is signed] Cato.
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