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SCG-C.751.028
17-24 Jun 1751:12 (893)
[In an Extract from the Reflector, entitled "How Posts may
be well filled, and the Publick well served." bottom of
second column:]
The mischief is heightened by governors; who confer
offices more out of affection and party, than reason and
justice. This is fatal; for tho' a country should abound
with persons of great natural abilities, such a preposterous
management would not suffer one to appear; but render them
all incapable. If an able artist be made a weak senator; or
if a good senator be unsuitably made a judge; such a
matamorphosis turns two useful men into noxious animals.
The best set of comedians may act odiously, if they change
parts; and yet the actors not be blamable, but their
directors. Indeed the managers of theatres are careful in
the distribution of parts; so as to make each player shine
in his character. But tho' this be well observed on the
stage, it is strangely neglected in the world. . .
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