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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    Hill'd and refin'd, in fuch manner as* Human nature requires, to produce that perfection of which it is fufceptible, and to purge away that malevolence of difpofition, of which, at our birth, we partake in common with the favage creation. This may be faid, and tlfs is all that can be faid ; and it is, I am afraid, but little fatisfaClory to account for the in¬ humanity of thofe, who, while they boaft of being made after God’s own image, feem to bear in their minds a refemblance of the vileft fpecies of brutes; or rather, indeed, of our idea of devils: for I don’t know that any brutes can be taxed with fuch malevo¬ lence. A surloin of beef was now placed on the table, for which, tho' little bet¬ ter than carrion, as much was charged by the mailer of the little paltry ale- houfe who dreffed it, as would have been demanded for all the elegance of the