Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1765.09.05

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Index Entry Addison, author of lyric [beg] O Porcius, is there not some chosen curse 
Location Boston 
Citation
NYGWPB.765.098
5 Sep 1765:12 (1183)
Boston, August 19.
Bondage is ign'rance, and he that sees,
Needs no directer cure for that disease;
Knowledge and liberty go hand in hand,
Fools only will obey, when knaves command.
[2 more lines]
N.B. These lines may be found in a poem call'd Caledonia.
. . . [rest of column deals with Stamp Act, ending with:]
most apposite lines in Addison's Cato.[:]
O Porcius, is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man
Who owes his greatness to his countrys ruin?
[N.B. This piece was wrote several days before the late
stirs in Boston.]


Generic Title New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy 
Date 1765.09.05 
Publisher Holt, John 
City, State New York, NY 
Year 1765 
Bibliography B0026893
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