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NYWJ.741.034
28 Sep 1741:11 (408)
Of Ambition in its several kinds and degrees of life.
Ambition, or a desire of excellency and rising above others
is natural to all who would be esteemed above others, . . .
[11 lines] If it should be the ambition of a young
gentleman, or young lady to commence a finish'd Petit Maitre
or modern Belle, dress, finery, balls, operas, with a long
Et caetera, are their only studies, while good sense and
understanding are totally neglected and undervalued: Hence
there is scarce a Beau but is a blockhead, or a Belle, who
has common sense. . . [100 more lines, signed:] S.W.
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