Letter to The Chronicle (1762) [ Concepts ]
… Dilettanti club. I was much concerned & alarmed to hear of an intention of taking from the public a place dedicated to health & recreation, as I am sure the resentment of the people would fall, where of all places every honest & loyal … its immortal progeny and thus shall a place where valetudinarians took their exercise, the aged & the infants sought for health & refreshment, & the people innocent recreation, be turn’d into a scene of riot & debauchery, & become the school …
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