Idle Diversions and the Dangers of Laziness Explored
A fragmentary essay argues idleness and diversions rot the mind and body, draining energy and virtue. It condemns constant leisure, warns labor fuels happiness, and cautions that easy pleasures invite fraud, dependency, and social decay through habit and envy.
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Hether
Advertisements and Translated Works from 1710s Ledger
A block of catalog items lists Practical Treatise on Patons by Francis Hragge Vicar of Hitchin and prebendary of Lincoln, a Great Abbase of Musick discussion among ancient peoples, Tractates on original sin by Dan Whitby, a second edition of A New Journey to Paris, and a secret Franco-British transaction note with Sieur du Brandier. Published by J Morphew near Stationers Hall, various prices.
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Francis Hragge
Hitch
Hertfordshire
Lincoln
Paris
Sieur du Brandier
J.morphew
Stationers Hall
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Defian
Arthur Bedford
M. A. Vicaret Femple
Bristol
J. Wyat
St. Paul’s Churchyard
Dan. Whitby
Impenis J. Wyat
Cemiterio Divi Pauli
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