… Stage Poets, and Play-House,’ wrote Collier; theatre ‘strikes at the Root of Principle, draws off the Inclinations from Virtue, and spoils good Education: ‘Tis the most effectual means to baffle the Force of Discipline, to emasculate peoples …
… in various parts of England, quickly incorporated his discoveries into their repertoires. They described the medicinal virtues of carbonated water and the use of ‘inflammable air’ (hydrogen) in balloons. Walker adopted the new gases in his …
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