Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… , he showed himself keenly aware of the influence exacted by the press, asserting on March 12 th that ‘Grubstreet Papers about [the Mohocks] fly like Lightning’ (336). His belief that there may be ‘no Truth or very little in the whole … sociable ideals, a shadow of their club landscape, rather than mere violent chaos; and it is to this anxiety that the papers predominantly appealed, fermenting city-wide panic. 8 . E.J. Burford and Joy Wotton, Private Vices. Public … a man of Hell-fire fame, his name does fit intriguingly into a legacy of rakery. 11 . Thomas Wentworth, The Wentworth Papers 1705-1739, with a memoir and notes by James J. Cartwright (London: Wyman & Son’s, 1883), p. 277. The Mohock …
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