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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. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ...their brethren of common ancestry, laws, and language, in the hour of distress! America leaguering against liberty, and raising her hand against that parent, to whom she is indebted for the principles and knowledge which should humanize and ennoble her! But the truth is, Jonathan calculates that we are at our last gasp, and longs to be in at the death; he is eager for strife, because he is as yet unacquainted with the consequent blessings of loans and war taxes; and he will, in the event of Napoleon's ultimate success, spit his venom to gain our commerce and the Canadas. " I make these assertions from a comparison of facts, rather than from a discussion of motives; but my opinions, however inefficient to carry conviction, are strictly impartial. I do not impute to the whole population, or even to the major part of it, the low scurrility which marks and stigmatizes the present proceedings. But under what plea do they join the French? It cannot be as fellow revolutionists, for the independence of America was brought about by worthy leaders, and a people who had wholesome English habits, English laws, and English morality; men differing as widely from the ferocious visionaries of France, as elephants do from musquitos." The Acasta having received such repairs as could be afforded, returned to Barbadoes; shortly after which, Mr. R. T. Ellis, a fine young midshipman, died of a fever, and the event was broken by Captain Beaver, to the father of the youth, in the following appropriate and feeling letter: "It is the lot of but few to arrive at that period of life, to which you and I have attained, without having experienced many and severe afflictions; and one great drawback upon the happiness which is produced by a numerous and virtuous family, is, that...
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Smyth was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1849 to 1851
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151146404
- ISBN 13 9781151146403
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages78
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