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SCG-C.749.051
18-25 Sep 1749:11, 12 (802)
From the Remembrancer, April 29.
. . . [1 line in Latin, signed] Hor.
Hitherto it has been said, by several, that it was
impossible to bribe the whole nation: But experience has
shewn, that their notions of bribery were abundantly too
narrow: they considered avarice and ambition as the only
passions to be gratified; whereas it now appears that
curiosity is more obnoxious to temptations than either.
Ambition must have the heralds to wait upon it; must has its
stile and title proclaimed by sound of trumpet; . . . [4
lines] but curiosity requires nothing but novelty, and will
both chearfully and eagerly compound for rags and
wretchedness, provided it may be indulged. . . [1 1/2
columns complaining about the spectacles and novelties that
people spend their money on.]
Nay, so thoroughly mischievous is this gewgaw-principle,
in all its operations, that even persons of over-grown
fortunes are alike drawn within its vortex, consequently can
attend to nothing but parties, dresses, jubilee-balls,
fireworks, &c. &c. And the result of all is, a dead
stagnation of business, giddiness in every head, frolic in
every heart, and all those other symptoms which lead to a
state of beggary. Yours, &c. [signed] Anti Pyrobolos.
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