Citation - Massachusetts Gazette-Springfield: 1783.02.25

MG-S.783.006
25 Feb 1783:12 (1/42)
. . . [Essay on society and manners in Europe, beginning in
Paris]  We returned by the Boulevards, where crowds of
citizens, in their holiday dresses were making merry:  The
young dancing cotillons, the old beating time to the music,
and applauding the dancers--all in a careless oblivion of
the past, thoughtless of the future, and totally occupied
with the present. . .