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PL.777.017
19 Nov 1777:13, 21, 22 (104)
To the printer of the Pennsylvania Ledger. Sir, . . .
[quote from Mason] Of all the various employments which
offer themselves to the choice of mankind, those of farming
and gardening appear to me the most delightful. . . [17
lines]
Among other sports of fancy, it came into my head, the
other day, to liken the human heart to a garden, and I could
not stop the flights of imagination, until I had pursued the
subject as far as it would go. Such as they are, I here
present my thoughts to the Reader, with at least, this
humble hope, that the time spent in perusing them will be as
innocently, and as laudably filled, as in studying a dress
for the next public dance, or determining that important
question, "Whether it is better to come home sober at ten,
or otherwise at one or two o'clock in the morning?" . . .
[elaborate moral metaphor of garden in two more columns.]
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