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A Voyage to the East Indies: Page 117
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=ing Hostilities with them. Accordingly the Parson inveigh’d bitterly from the Pulpit against Intemperance, and denounc’d God’s Judgements against Drunkards, whereby he became formidable. The Æsculapean Gentleman was as ready to condemn its Effects on the Body, as the other was on the Soul; so that by the one’s pretending to strive for the spiritual, and the other for the temporal Interest, they made a shift to pave a Way to their own; and in a short Time got safely lodg’d in the Society.
Charity and a respect for the Fair Sex prevent me from speaking about what the World speaks of them, or in other Words what they speak of one another. Calumny I will allow is no where so industrious as at St Helena, where an Angel could scarcely be free from consorious Tongues. But at the same Time I must acknowledge that they are destitute of those little winning acts, which endear them to our Sex, and fix a Lustre on Their Character, tho not for want of attention on their part; for being over anxious to please, they set out on an erroneous path, and lose themselves in the Wilds of Coquetry. Besides, their persons being always at the Disposal of perhaps an avaricious parent, and their Charms put up at public Sale to be purchas’d by the best Bidder, are motives sufficient to extinguish the kindling Flame of a generous passion, & make them subservient to a parents selfish Disposition . . [end page 117]
Charity and a respect for the Fair Sex prevent me from speaking about what the World speaks of them, or in other Words what they speak of one another. Calumny I will allow is no where so industrious as at St Helena, where an Angel could scarcely be free from consorious Tongues. But at the same Time I must acknowledge that they are destitute of those little winning acts, which endear them to our Sex, and fix a Lustre on Their Character, tho not for want of attention on their part; for being over anxious to please, they set out on an erroneous path, and lose themselves in the Wilds of Coquetry. Besides, their persons being always at the Disposal of perhaps an avaricious parent, and their Charms put up at public Sale to be purchas’d by the best Bidder, are motives sufficient to extinguish the kindling Flame of a generous passion, & make them subservient to a parents selfish Disposition . . [end page 117]
