The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of old times, became voluntary facri- fices to the good of the public. Bur, left the reader fhould be too eager to catch at the word vanity, and fhould be unwilling to indulge me with fo fublime a gratification, for I think he is not too apt to gratify me, I will take my key a pitch lower, and will frankly own that I had a ftronger motive than the love of the public to pufh me on : I will therefore confefs to him, that my private affairs at the beginning of the winter had but a gloomy afpedt *y for I had not plundered the public or the poor of thofe Turns which men, who are always ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleafed to fufpedt me of taking : on the con¬ trary, by compofing, inftead of inflam¬ ing, the quarrels of porters and beggars (whkh I blufh when I fay hath not been univerfally praftifed) and by re~ fufing to take a ihilling from a man who moft undoubtedly would not have had another left, I had reduced an in- C come