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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    With this obfervation we muft take leave of the prefent foreboding con- teft, and the impending and uncertain’ fate of this war, with all its contin- gencies and confequences as they may be derived from» the vigour or relax-- ation of government, from victory or defeats in the field of battle, or from: the neutrality or interference of the: jealous and perfidious powers upon: the Eaftern Continent. ‘We have only to add, in our per-- fonal defence refpecting” our political traits, as they are exhibited in thefe volumes, one material principle which: we glory in, and which has been pre- dominant