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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 edition. Excerpt: ...of any thing but her cruelties and de-vaftation. To them the independence of America appeared as much the natural and eftablifhed govern-; ment of the country, as.that of England does to an Englifhman. " Time and Death, fays he, hard " enemies to contend with, fight conftantly againft " the interefts of Britain; and the bills of mortality, " in every part of America are the thermometers of her " decline. The children in the ftreets are from their " cradle bred to confider her as their only foe. They " hear of her cruelties: of their fathers, uncles, and " kindred killed; they fee the remains of burnt and " deftroyed houfes, and the common tradition of " the fchool they go to, tells them tbofe things were " done by the Britijh." i cular: they feemed very happy that I knew Englim, and aftronomy enough to under-ftand them; on which I muft obferve, that the latter article is more to the fhame of the Americans than to my praife; the almanack being almoft the only book of Aftronomy ftudied at Philadelphia. Mr. Rittenhoufe is of a German family, as his name announces; but he is a native of Philadelphia, and a watch-maker by profeffion. He is a man of great fimplicity and modefty, and though not a mathematician of the clafs of the Eulers, and the D'Alemberts, knows enough of that fcience to be perfectly acquainted with the motions of the heavenly bodies. As for his mechanical talents, it is unnecefiary to aflign a reafon for them; we know that of all others, they are lefs the refult of ftudy, and moft generally the gift of nature; and it is a fact worthy of obfervation, that, notwithftanding the little connection to be perceived between that particular difpofition and the delicacy of our fenfes, or the perfection of our organs, men are more frequently...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150250593
- ISBN 13 9781150250590
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages88
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