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NYGWPB.767.010
26 Mar 1767:12, 21 (1264)
What is generally knowing the world, and seeing life,
defined.
To know the world, that is the question. Now I am to give
you the genuine sense and signification of this phrase . . .
[5 paragraphs follow, then]
You must belong to drinking clubs, spouting clubs, and
disputing clubs. You must often go the play-houses, and
there always distinguish yourself as highly as possible in
assuming every freakish air and saucy attitude . . . You
must every now and then kick up a dust a Ranelagh, obstruct
the entertainments at Vauxhall, and bilk the waiters at
Marybone. This is life. . . . [1 paragraph follows, then]
You must go to Weatherby's, and Murphy's, and Derry's, and
to every other joyous place in the neighbourhood of the dear
garden, where you must keep it up all night and morning in
drinking swearing, and singing . . . [signed] Hector.
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