The Spectator, No. 324 (12 March 1712) [ People ]
… Mr. Spectator, The Materials you have collected together towards a general History of Clubs, make so bright a Part of your … which they expose. But these I forbear to mention, because they can't but be very shocking to the Reader as well as the Spectator. In this manner they carry on a War against Mankind; and by the standing Maxims of their Policy, are to enter … ever being so. You have been pleas'd, out of a concern for the good of your Countrymen, to act under the Character of Spectator, not only the Part of a Looker-on, but an Overseer of their Actions; and whenever such Enormities as this …
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