Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 72 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 72: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or journal, marked as chapter 72 ("A Month's Tour"). The text describes the narrator's arrival at Black Rock and lodgings at half past nine o'clock, noting their exhaustion but increased patience and knowledge from the excursion. The passage then philosophizes about human happiness depending more on trivial accidents than great events, and uses an example of a meal shared with a "Tina-Hinch host" as illustration of how contentment and good humor build virtue. The page breaks mid-sentence with "oc-" suggesting continuation on the next page. The typography shows period-appropriate long 's' characters and irregular spelling conventions.
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7 Ai MONTH? TOUR. Black Rock; and arrived at our lodgings: at ‘half patt nine o'clock. . We found-our.ftrength-and fpirits nearly . exhaufted by. this -excurfion—our ftock of. patience and knowledge greatly increafed.. As human happinefs depends: much: more upon trifling accidents: than.-great. events, it becomes everyone who 1s ftudi- - ous of his own tranquility, to render-him- ‘ “elf as-callous as poffible to the petty cha- ' "grins and difappointments-of life. To partake of fuch a: homely repatt, for’ inftance, as our Tina-Hinch hoft.gave us, . with contentment. and good humour, would be a means of furnifhing our minds with thefe virtues againtt a amore important oc- ~ ~*~ ~-—- 4 ’ ‘ - oe a! » : owe comicbooks.com