Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 58 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 58: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from "A Month's Tour," describing events on the 29th of an unspecified month. The narrator expresses disappointment at the lack of public celebration in what appears to be Dublin (Phoenix Park is mentioned), noting the absence of oak branches and church bells. The passage then recounts dining with Mr. W—, a Quaker gentleman afflicted with gout, who philosophizes that both animals and vegetables require exercise to survive—labor for animals, and wind and breezes for plants. The text uses eighteenth-century typography and spelling conventions.
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a « © aont - - “ ” i ll att eee ne Pere eee me en om a ; o ’ ss A MONTH: .TOUR, On the 29th we were greatly difanpoint- ed in finding no marks of public joy and feftivity upon this day, except the firing of the guns mm Phoenix park. There was not a branch of oak to be feen, and {carcely a fet of bells heard to ring throughout the whole city. We-dined and drank tea at Mr. W a Quaker, in whom we met with a very S> fenfible and agreeable hoft, but quite debilitated by the gout. In lamenting the inactive life he lead, he obferved, that neither animals nor vegetables could poffi- bly fubfift long without exercife. Labour, natural or artificial, is ‘abfolutely necef- fary to the animal ceconomy,—winds and gentle breezes to the fupport of vegetable life. ) comicbooks.com