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BEP(F.753.030
24 Dec 1753:11,12 (956)
From the Humourist. Said to be written by the late
ingenious and learned Judge Burnet. Of Ambition and Pride.
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The ladies too have their topicks of ambition: Some glory
in their faces, some in their jellies, and some in their
devotion; and before you attack their hearts, you must watch
their affections. Will. Swiftly conquered Mrs. Rebecca by
writing an epigram upon gravy-sauce; and Jack Quarto made
his way to Mrs. Sunday's heart, by singing psalms. . .
Ambition is rational and laudable, when it seeks and aims
at the peace and happiness of human society; but where it is
only personal and selfish, it is either very silly or very
terrible.
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