Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 59 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 59: what you’re looking at
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# Page Description This is a running prose page (numbered 59) from what appears to be a travel narrative or essay titled "A Month's Tour." The visible text discusses two topics: first, a brief scientific observation about how labour and wind promote circulation in bodies and plants respectively; second, an anecdote about Quakers in Dublin, noting they are more sociable there than in England, followed by a dialogue in which a young Quaker defends his love of music as characteristic of taste and genius. The page breaks mid-sentence at the bottom.
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A MONTH’ TOUR 49 In the former, labour promotes a pro- . per circulation of the blood and fluids ;— in the latter, winds and breezes, which ferve as their exercife, caufe a juft diftribu- tion of the juices into every part of plants. Any one that vifits Dublin, muft ob- ferve, that Quakers are not that precife, unfocial fet of mortals here, which they are in fome parts of England, They fing a chearful fong, frequent affemblies and other polite places of entertainment pro- mifcuoufly with the reft of their fellow ci- tizens. “One of the youthful tribe being reprov’d by a primitive elder for his love of mufic, reply’d, “ that it is the cha- * racteriftic of tafte and genius to be an * admirer of it ; for among all the beafts | H 2 « of comicbooks.com