Public Advertiser (1781) [ Practices ]
… the Use of those Faculties, which enobles us in the Scale of Creation. If we were to ask wherher we were endowed with an immortal Soul, to spend Hours together in beholding a few Spots upon a Piece of Pasteboard, the Question would be … not Iess than that which is occasioned by the Loss of a Crown; and if Lucre alone possesses the Boson, Thorns grow there without Restraint. The vivid Glow which plays upon the Face of Beauty, and calls a divine Lustre on the humane Face, is … its proving too tedious; but shall conclude, though at the same Time indulge a pleasing Hope, that this Letter will meet with your Approbation, and find a Place in the Public Advertiser. A. B. … "the …
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