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NHG-P.757.020
16 Sep 1757:11,12,13 (50)
Some Account of an Estimate of the Manners and Principles of
the Times, by the Author of Essays on the Characteristics.
The principal view of this work is to show, that the source
of our public miscarriages is not the accidental misconduct
of individuals, but the depraved principles and manners of
the times; and the danger and importance of the present
crisis has induced the author to publish separately what is
part of a much more extensive work on the subject of manners
in general.
. . . [89 lines, 43 lines, discussing universities, the
theatre, books] This excess of effeminate delicacy has
influenced every other entertainment; it has produced a low
and unmanly taste in music. We do not go to concerts or
operas to admire the composition, but the tricks of the
performer, who is always most applauded when he runs through
the compass of the throat, or traverses the finger board
with the swiftest dexterity. . . [49 lines, 19 lines
discussing painting]
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