19.Dramatic representations, besides, frequently exposing their artifices to public ridicule, and sometimes even to public execration, were, upon that account, more than all other diversions, the objects of their peculiar abhorrence.
此外,戏剧表演经常将他们的技巧暴露给公众的嘲笑,有时甚至是公众的辱骂,因此,比所有其他的娱乐活动更成为他们特别憎恶的对象。机翻