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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 24, 1748
Page
2
Shipping news reports transports and troops disembarking at Harwich and Yarmouth, with hundreds of sailors and horses aboard, plus arrivals from Virginia Smyrna and Newfoundland. Royal family movements at Kew and Windsor, court ceremonies, and local crimes and fires also noted.
A critique of a forthcoming translation of Tartare by Tartreen or Tartare with emphasis on moral philosophy. The writer argues virtue requires all virtues, not one, and mocks pretentious luxury and extortion as false nobility. It discusses the heart over intellect in morality and cites Dacier and Plato. The piece defends the translation’s aim and urges discerning readers.
A notice from Coventry warns two young geldings are missing. One gelding stands about fourteen hands high, four years old, pitch brand LL, clipped near shoulder. The other four years old, with star and snip, four white feet, cut tail, rowel recently in the near shoulder. Reward offered for return to Gilbert in High Street or Greyhound Inn in Sees cit.
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