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NYGWPB.767.027
6 Aug 1767:33 (1283)
*** The price for admittance having been objected to, as
rather too high, the exhibitor has, by the advice of his
friends, lowered it to half a dollar.
Positively the last night.
At Mr. Burns's Assembly Room,
To-morrow, being Friday,
Mr. Douglass, will deliver a Lecture on Heads.
A syllabus of which follows:
Part I.
Introduction...Alexander...Cherokee...Quake-
Doctor...Arms...Cuckold...Cornucopia...Lawyer...Oration in
Praise of Law...Case, Daniel versus Dishclout...Journeyman's
Jemmy...Sir Languish Lispey...Frizzl'd Bob Jockey..
.Nobody...Arms of Nobody, Somebody, any body and every
body...Fate of Esteem, generosity, Friendship, Gratitude,
Common Sense, and publick Spirit...Genealogy of
Genius...Sciences...Honesty...Flattery.
Part II.
Physical Wig...Dissertation on Sneezing and Snuff
taking...Blood...Woman of the Town...Tea-Table
Critic...Stock-Jobber...Alderman Double Chin the Politician
and Turtle-Eater...Gambler...his Funeral...his
Monument...Anecdote of a Landlord and a
Soldier...Yorick...Methodist.
Part III.
Riding-Hood...Ranelagh Hood...Billingsgate...Laughing and
crying Philosophy...Origin of Ladies Bonnets, Pompoons,
Egrette's, and Curtain Lectures...Night Rail...Check
Wrapper...Face-Painting exploded...Young Wife and Old Maid
Contrasted...Old Bachelor...Quaker Man and Woman...Nevernois
Hat...Englishman and Frenchman...Virtuoso...Learned Critic
To conclude with the Dissection of the Heart of a British
Sailor.
and,
The Heart of his Agent, for Prizes.
Between the parts, and at the end of the lecture, singing
by Mr. Woolls.
To begin exactly at seven o'clock.
Tickets to be had at the Bible and Crown in Hanover-Square,
and at Mr. Burns's, in the Broad-Way, at half a dollar each.
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