Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 73 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 73: what you’re looking at
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# Page Description This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or diary, numbered 73 and titled "A MONTH'S TOUR." The text begins with philosophical observations about human life as entertainment, then shifts on June 1st to recount the day's events: the narrator rested at their lodgings after a Wicklow expedition and received a hearty dinner invitation from an acquaintance, Mr. P—, which they found impossible to decline. The page contains no illustrations or advertisements.
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& MONTH: TOUR 43 eccafion. Human life itfelf is but anenter- tainment, and every well-bred perfon fhould accommodate himfelf to that portion which the matter of the, feaft is. pleafed to afign him, without difqu.eting himfelf and others, by endeavouring to provide himfelf with more luxurious delicacies.. June the firft. The occurences of this day may be related in few words. Being a little fatigued with our Wicklow expedition, we fauntered away the whole morning at ourlodgings. Our obliging friend and. countryman Mr. P— came atid gave us fo hearty an ihvitationto dine with him, that there was pegs a NA of declining it. K We comicbooks.com