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PJ.767.034
12 Mar 1767:11 (1266)
The play-house lately erected in this city, has produced a
good deal of uneasiness in the minds of many people, who,
carried away by their zeal, have manifested their dislike,
by raising a clamour against it.----Many arguments have been
adduced against the stage, and, among these, I find not a
little stress is laid on the opinions of some of the father,
without any thing in support of their opinions. This I am
much surprized at, as one would scarce believe, that a man
could be so void of common sense, as to suppose, that the
mere ipse dixit of any of the fathers would pass for sound
reasoning-----no, people do not now a days, swallow, by
wholesale, every thing that is dealt out to them, as in the
ages of ignorance and superstition . . . [1 column]
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