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IA.749.031
29 May 1749:21 (74)
Philadelphia, May 18. The dwelling houses of this city,
being lately numbered, from a motive of curiosity, by twelve
careful persons. . . [30 lines ruminating on the growth of
the city from a wilderness.]
Orpheus is said, in old poetic fables, to have built a city
by the force of his musick, the sound of his harp charming
even the trees and stones to collect themselves together:
But the sweetest of all sounds is liberty; and wholesome
laws with good government make the most enchanting harmony;
musick, which like the last trumpet, will be heard in the
remotest regions, and collect mankind from the most distant
parts of the globe.
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