Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 85 of 120
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# Page Description This is running prose from the body text of a penny dreadful. The passage, titled "A Month's Tour," recounts a dinner conversation with a Captain of the Dublin volunteers. The Captain expresses heterodox views, arguing that the volunteers took up arms not merely to defend Ireland from invasion and preserve internal peace, but to redress grievances—which the narrator dismisses as imaginary military passion rather than legitimate complaints. The passage concludes by suggesting that if the volunteers use their arms prudently, they could benefit their country.
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A -MONTHs TOUR. %& A Captain of the Dublin volunteers entered. after dinner, and engaged us in "warm: converfation. Among other he- terodox opinions of his, he would not al- low that they took up arms merely to protect their country from invafion, and-to- preferve the internal peace of it, but for the redrefs of grievances: what thefe grievance, are, no fenfible, impartial per- fon among them can tell > a military rage, or puerile fondnefs for the infignia of Mars, has broke out among their young men, and they endeavour to perfuade them- felves and others that they have real grievances to redrefs, whereas they exift - only in their own wild imaginations. If they make a prudent ufe of their arms, they will certainly be a bleffing to their coun- try; comicbooks.com