Pictures of men, manners, and times; interspersed with descriptions of the country, and rural enjoyments / Written in the year 1777.

Date:
1779
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Pictures of men, manners, and times; interspersed with descriptions of the country, and rural enjoyments / Written in the year 1777. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a ae to merit the ftigma which the wicked- nefs and folly of his fubjects prefume to fix upon him, ferves likewife to excite the efforts of every contending power upon earth tottake advantage of our internal commotions, and to ftrive to overwhelm us in that terrible gulph of deftru€tion, which would never open his tremendous jaws to devour us but for the ridiculous noife and pother which we are eternally making about him. While with our cries, and our fhrieks, we roufe the grifly monfter of the deep, it is no wonder he fhould | fwallow us out of mere compaffion, and for no other purpofe than to put an end to our fears.