Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1750.03.26

NYGWPB.750.013
26 Mar 1750:11,12,21 (375)
REFLECTIONS ON THE STAGE.  NO. II.
[4 lines in Latin, signed] Aut. Incert.
It has ever been the opinion of the wisest master in
philosophy, that examplary instruction is the most easy
direct road to virtue and happiness.  In this method of
improvement, many peculiar advantages arise, to accelerate
our advances in real knowledge, that are entirely lost in a
dull inanimate way of precept. 
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