Life And Adventures of Israel Ralph Potter 1744 1826
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POTTER that of those who have hardly ever seen the sun, but live confined in lead mines, stone quarries and coal-pits? Before you call yourselves wretched, take a survey of the jails in Europe, in which wretched beings who have been driven to the commission of crimes by starvation, or unfortunate and honest debtors who have been torn from their impoverished families, are . Doomed to pine. So far from uttering unreasonable complaints, the hearts of my highly favoured countrymen ought rather to b...e filled with gratitude to that Being by whose assistance they have been enabled to avert so many of the miseries of life so peculiar to a portion of the oppressed of Europe at the present day; and who after groaning themselves for some time under the yoke of for eign tyranny, succeeded in emancipating themselves from slavery and are now blessed with the sweets of liberty and the undisturbed enjoyment of their natural rights. Britain, imperious Britain, who once boasted the freedom of her government and the invin cible power of her arms, now finds herself reduced to the humiliat ing necessity of receiving lessons of liberty from those whom till late she despised as slaves; while our own country, on the other hand, like a phoenix from her ashes, having emerged from a long, expensive and bloody war, and established a constitution upon the broad and immovable basis of national equality, now promises to become the permanent residence of peace, liberty, science and national felicity.
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