Citation - Boston Chronicle: 1770.01.25

BC.770.008
22-25 Jan 1770:303 (165)
[In 3-column essay on preaching "from a late publication at
Paris."] . . . Our author now proceeds to consider what
influence the dramatic writers, and the satirists of ancient
and modern times, have had upon the morals of mankind. . . 
[17 lines] The philosopher, in order to establish morality,
neither borrows the bitterness of satire, nor the
enchantment of the theatre; neither the thunder of
eloquence, nor the sublime of inspiration. . .