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MG-A(G.769.060
21 Dec 1769:2033 (1267)
London, Oct. 5. An ingenious writer observes, that though
there never was a period in which calamity was so much
talked of, he does not believe that there ever was a period
in which it was so little experienced by the people of this
Kingdom. If we are undone, says he, we are the most
splendidly ruined of any nation in the universe, and if our
merchants are all beggars, there are not such beggars in any
part of the globe.-- Though we are pressed to the earth by
the weight of taxation, we nevertheless find a sufficiency
to defray the charges of a Ridotto al Fresco, a Ball Pare,
or a Stratford Jubilee; the more extravagant the
entertainment, the more crouded we always find the company;
an amusement is reckoned vulgar in proportion to its
cheapness; and these only are followed with any kind of
avidity, at which the charges of a single evening would
afford a week's decent provision for a middling family.
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