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PGCJ.764.031
29 Sep 1764:32 (102)
[The page is torn. This is probably part of an unsigned
letter in reference to a piece about taxing America.] . . .
Were one of the first planters to reconnoitre a modern
meeting-house, on a Sunday, he would imagine the
congregation to be drest for a masquerade, or that some
pantomime performance was in hand. At the same place that
black gown and band would be esteemed as a badge of the
whore of Babylon, a garment worn by Madam Pompadour, or any
other of the French King's mistresses, is received as a
vestment consecrated to charity.
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