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The cobler's letter to the author of Thelyphthora [M. Madan], intended as a supplement to Mr. Hill's address, intitled, "The blessings of polygamy." ... / [Sir Richard Hill].

  • Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet
Date:
1781
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Credit: The cobler's letter to the author of Thelyphthora [M. Madan], intended as a supplement to Mr. Hill's address, intitled, "The blessings of polygamy." ... / [Sir Richard Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thefe in our large Collegiate cities, who (like their brethren of the d/ack apron,) carry on their trade in Sta//s, though they prefer cobling ona Bench when it is in their power. And whilft they are in their Stalls, you may fometimes hear them _/ng- ing amain, thereby fhewing that they are either well pleafed with their work or their wages. However, thefe coblers in gene- ral, (for the picture I give of the moft is by no means intended as a reprefentation of all, but very far from it) do very little bufinefs in their profeffion, fcarcely mend- — ing a fole from one year’s end te another ; and what little they do attempt, is with that fort of leather which is againjt the grain, or as I believe fhoemakers call it black of the grain, And multitudes among them if they do but cobble a little now and then on a Sunday, think this fufficient reafon for being idle all the reft of the week, I might fhew in feveral more inftances (but let thefe fuffice) that there are many great men who are coblers in all profef- fions, and that therefore there is no fhame at all in my being dubbed @ codbler in criti- vifim by the learned author of Thelyphthora. —from
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