Letters of the Black Dwarf. From the Black Dwarf, in London, to the Yellow Bonze at Japan. Cashman and Castlereagh
The Black Dwarf, pseud. [Thomas J Wooler] *
Genre: | Regular Feature, Letter, Spoof, News-Commentary |
Subjects: | Meteorology, Public Health, Epidemiology |
Relates that British seamen are 'always the first to turn out, as they call it, whether to fight, to drink, to dance, or to kick up a row' (126). Explains that the last of these, while not praiseworthy, is 'essential to a free state'. 'No one loves to walk in a tempest; but at the same time, it purifies the atmosphere, and scatters the contagion that would otherwise introduce a general pestilence, and hazard general destruction'. (127) | |
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