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When public diverfion direfts its courfe from manly feat* of aivity : from wreftling, boxing, cudgeling, fencing, running, leaping, c. to. the loft airs of a callrated Ialian, it is time for a Miniltcr of State who loves bis country, to confulc with his council and his Sovereign, on the bed mode of puttiag a Hop to that effeminacy, which in the end may prove the ruin of th kingdom. Neither painting, fculpture, or mufic, will at\ as barriers againll an e..emy.~ One firelock is worth an hundred pencils ; and a Britilh grenadier lt;:( marc lervice than ten thoufand modern Raphaels. The thunder of a man of war wil!_do more execution by terror, than all the fveet air; of a million of caftratos can accomplilh by the mufic of their throats.— It argues the warlike genius of a people to lee them attend bu l-b-i:ings, cock-fights, and box-ing-maiche6 ;---more than it redounds to thehonor of a nation that mull be preferved by the fword,-—to fee its officers, (o diers, and gentlemen, parade ia a drawing-room, or figh to the mufic of an opera.Tf vnur LordfhiD onlv turns to the Navv. you
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Morning Herald and Daily Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Aug 07, 1782
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