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MG-A(G.749.019
7 Jun 1749:31 (215)
Philadelphia, May 18. . . [33 lines reflecting on the growth
of the city from the wilderness concluding with] 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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