An Essay On the Use And Advantages of the Fine Arts Delivered At the Public Com
An Essay On the Use And Advantages of the Fine Arts Delivered At the Public Com
John Trumbull
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Hap py, in this relpedt, have been our late ftruggles for liberty ! They have awakened the fpirit of freedom ; they have rectified the manners of the times, they have made us acquainted with the rights of man kind, recalled to our minds the glorious indcpen- ciance of former ages, fired us with the views of fame, and by filling our thoughts with contempt of the imported articles of luxury, have raifed an oppofition, not only to the illegal power, but to the effeminate manners of Britain. And I ...cannot but hope, notwithstanding ibme dangerous examples of infamous defection, that there is a fpirit remaining in thefe Colonies, that will invariably oppofe itfelf to the efforts of ufurpation and perfidy, and forbid that Avarice fhould ever betray us to Slavery. This Land hath already begun to dillinguifh it- ielf in literature. It is peculiarly famed for the ftudy ( '3 ) ftudy of Theology ; and though too much infefted with the fhort- lived productions of controverfy, can boaft of fomc Divines, who however inelegant in flyle and exprefiion, have perhaps never been ex celled in depth of thought and profoundnefs of reafoning.
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