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Article THE CASE OF A DISTRESSED CITIZEN. ← Page 3 of 3 Article ON PUBLIC INGRATITUDE TO GREAT CHARACTERS. Page 1 of 6 →
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The Case Of A Distressed Citizen.
prevailed . upon to stay another fortnight , and that over , we set out for town . The expence of this , wonderful cure , however , ^ vas so very considerable , that I heartily prayed we might never be afflicted beyond the reach of London doctors and apothecaries , whose fees and bribes weve rt . thing to what I paid at the watering-place . During the remainder of the year , and the whole winter and spring followingnamely to June 1795 my family enjoyed perfect health ;
, , but alas ! one day in that fatal month , they were all seized with theold complaints , attended with the same singular symptoms , relating to myself , as before mentioned . The Doctor was sent for againthe Doctor prescribed a repetatur of the same medicine , and six weeks more at Margate completed the cure a second time . A whole apothecary ' s shop would not have cost the price of this second cure .
Health , however , returned , and continued again until last June , when our diseases recoinmencetlwith uncommon violence—but experience having given me now a little insight into this annual disorder , lam determined no longer to follow the Doctor ' s prescriptionmy family shall swallow his powders , his boluses , his pills , his juleps , his electuaries , and his potions ; but I cannot afford to pay for such
materia meelica as raffles , fine lodgings , balls , whist tables , and Dandelion dances . But alas , what is the resolution of matt I My wife and children , particularly the girls , have become worse and worse every day : the cough tears their lungs ; the smoke of London is more offensive now than ever ; and in a word , it shocks me to enter rny own dining-room ,
where my dinner is spoiled every day by the moving accounts I hear of family diseases , all of which are imputed to my obstinacy in not permitting them to visit Margate in the course of the last summer . To put an end Co domestic complaints for the present , I have promised that they shall visit Margate next year ; though , in the present perilous timesI am sure the profits of my trade will hardlbe
ade-, y quate to the expences of the journey . Thus circumstanced , let me beg from you , or some of your correspondents , advice how to regulate my conduct . I arn , dear Mr . Editor , Your ' s truly , TITUS DRIPPING .
On Public Ingratitude To Great Characters.
ON PUBLIC INGRATITUDE TO GREAT CHARACTERS .
BY a law peculiar to the Persians it was ordained , that the vice , or more properly the sin , of Ingratitude should be severely punished . To the rectitude of this decree , and to the condemnation of a crime which indicates extreme depravity of mind , and gross corruption of generous sentiments , every individual of liberal manners immediately assents . Whence then can it arise , that men think so properly as
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The Case Of A Distressed Citizen.
prevailed . upon to stay another fortnight , and that over , we set out for town . The expence of this , wonderful cure , however , ^ vas so very considerable , that I heartily prayed we might never be afflicted beyond the reach of London doctors and apothecaries , whose fees and bribes weve rt . thing to what I paid at the watering-place . During the remainder of the year , and the whole winter and spring followingnamely to June 1795 my family enjoyed perfect health ;
, , but alas ! one day in that fatal month , they were all seized with theold complaints , attended with the same singular symptoms , relating to myself , as before mentioned . The Doctor was sent for againthe Doctor prescribed a repetatur of the same medicine , and six weeks more at Margate completed the cure a second time . A whole apothecary ' s shop would not have cost the price of this second cure .
Health , however , returned , and continued again until last June , when our diseases recoinmencetlwith uncommon violence—but experience having given me now a little insight into this annual disorder , lam determined no longer to follow the Doctor ' s prescriptionmy family shall swallow his powders , his boluses , his pills , his juleps , his electuaries , and his potions ; but I cannot afford to pay for such
materia meelica as raffles , fine lodgings , balls , whist tables , and Dandelion dances . But alas , what is the resolution of matt I My wife and children , particularly the girls , have become worse and worse every day : the cough tears their lungs ; the smoke of London is more offensive now than ever ; and in a word , it shocks me to enter rny own dining-room ,
where my dinner is spoiled every day by the moving accounts I hear of family diseases , all of which are imputed to my obstinacy in not permitting them to visit Margate in the course of the last summer . To put an end Co domestic complaints for the present , I have promised that they shall visit Margate next year ; though , in the present perilous timesI am sure the profits of my trade will hardlbe
ade-, y quate to the expences of the journey . Thus circumstanced , let me beg from you , or some of your correspondents , advice how to regulate my conduct . I arn , dear Mr . Editor , Your ' s truly , TITUS DRIPPING .
On Public Ingratitude To Great Characters.
ON PUBLIC INGRATITUDE TO GREAT CHARACTERS .
BY a law peculiar to the Persians it was ordained , that the vice , or more properly the sin , of Ingratitude should be severely punished . To the rectitude of this decree , and to the condemnation of a crime which indicates extreme depravity of mind , and gross corruption of generous sentiments , every individual of liberal manners immediately assents . Whence then can it arise , that men think so properly as