July 27, 1775
----Is it profaneness to call
this most excellent quality "divine" ?
O divine neatness, with what
desire and pleasure I shall al-
-ways, in future honour, and
cordially value, the person
who professes thee Had I the
means, and could find artificers
equal to such a work, I would
erect an effigy which should
be so alluring----So irresistably
attracting, as to make all these
wood-surrounded women, love
and imitate its charms.
When I form in fancy, or see
in common life, examples of
the opposite taste in the fair part
of Gods creation----. In his
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