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The Man Of Pleasure.
THE MAN OF PLEASURE .
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE : 0 R ,
GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY . FOR NOVEMBER 1795 .
FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
. / Etas parentum pejor avis hilit , Nos nequiores , mox daturos Progeniem vitiosiorem . Hon . Our fathers have been worse than theirs , And we than ours '; next age will see A race more profligate than we . ROSCOMMON .
WHEN I take a view of the juvenile part of the polite world , and consider how eagerly they are destroying their constitutions and their fortunes , it is a matter of astonishment that the rising generation of our nobility should have the least hopes of possessing any share of health or property . _ . •_ .+., * have arisen to such pitchthat
The refinements of dissipation a , what was luxury to ourforefcthers does not now even comprize the necessaries of life . Every quarter of the globe is _ ransacked for shortening their lives , and anticipating old age . Every foreigner who has the art of killing in taste , is sure of being rewarded with art eastern fortune . Every quack in cookery or physic , with an exotic d while merit and science are
dename , is considereas a prodigy , rided The mountebank rolls in his gilded chariot , while the scholar in the gentleman trudges the streets with scarcely shoes to his feet . ^ If this folly and extravagance were confined to golden iools alone , the evil would be less dangerous ; but it runs through almost every station of life , and reaches even the lowest mechanic The trader who some years since thought it a piece of unwarrantable ex-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Man Of Pleasure.
THE MAN OF PLEASURE .
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE : 0 R ,
GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY . FOR NOVEMBER 1795 .
FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
. / Etas parentum pejor avis hilit , Nos nequiores , mox daturos Progeniem vitiosiorem . Hon . Our fathers have been worse than theirs , And we than ours '; next age will see A race more profligate than we . ROSCOMMON .
WHEN I take a view of the juvenile part of the polite world , and consider how eagerly they are destroying their constitutions and their fortunes , it is a matter of astonishment that the rising generation of our nobility should have the least hopes of possessing any share of health or property . _ . •_ .+., * have arisen to such pitchthat
The refinements of dissipation a , what was luxury to ourforefcthers does not now even comprize the necessaries of life . Every quarter of the globe is _ ransacked for shortening their lives , and anticipating old age . Every foreigner who has the art of killing in taste , is sure of being rewarded with art eastern fortune . Every quack in cookery or physic , with an exotic d while merit and science are
dename , is considereas a prodigy , rided The mountebank rolls in his gilded chariot , while the scholar in the gentleman trudges the streets with scarcely shoes to his feet . ^ If this folly and extravagance were confined to golden iools alone , the evil would be less dangerous ; but it runs through almost every station of life , and reaches even the lowest mechanic The trader who some years since thought it a piece of unwarrantable ex-