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SCG-C.750.040
23-30 Jul 1750:12 (846)
[Reference in long article entitled "The Ways to Raise a
Fortune; or the Art of Growing Rich."]
. . . these are only the ordinary forms of growing rich,
which may be practiced by all persons with success. But
there are other methods found out by hungry and ingenious
men. It is an old and true proverb, that necessity is the
mother of invention. Thus we read of a famous Italian
comedian Scaramouche, who, being reduced to want at Paris,
got a very considerable subsistence by selling snuff, which
he acquired by fashionably begging a pinch out of every
one's snuff box. . . [17 lines: there are those who waste
the means providence has given them.]
Therefore to make use of the words of an eminent citizen,
published lately in one of our newspapers:
When I see a young fellow just set up in trade, with his
footman and his brace of geldings, his country house and his
mistress, or taking a tour round the town, in order to come
more secretly into the neighbourhood of Covent-garden, a
constant attendant on play-houses, and a critic on plays and
players, a beau in his dress, and a block-head in his
intellects, . . .
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