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A cloud of witnesses
A cloud of witnesses; darting out light upon a case, too unseasonably made seasonable to be discoursed on.
Boston: printed by B. Green and J. Allen?, 1700
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A Cloud of Witnesses; Darting out Light upon a CASE, too Unseasonab… › PAGANS.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Scipio Africanus, complained of it, as a Degeneracy in his Age, that Persons of Quality sent their Children to the Dancing School.
Sallust, the Historian, reproached Sempronia as infamous, for having been a Dancer; their practice being, The Instrument of Luxury.
Salust, the Historian, reproached Sempronia as infamous, for having been a Dancer; their practice being, The Instrument of Luxury.
Cicero, in his Oration for Muraena, says, Nemo Saltat Sobrius, nisi forte insamat. A man must be either Drunk, or Mad, (says the Orator,) that is fond of Dancing. He Says, That this Vice never goes alone; & therefore he Reproaches Gabinius & Antonius with it.
Seneca bewails it, That in his Time Young ones were corrupted with Dances; and that Dancing-Schools were set up in the City. Tiberius himself, Banished the Dancers out of the City.