Printed for W. CREECH, Edinburgh; and for
W. STRAHAN, and T. CADELL, London.

MDCCLXXIV.

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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LISAARY 155776

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1899.

ИЕЛА ЛОВК

SKETCHES

OF THE

HISTORY OF ΜΑΝ.

воок II.

Progress of MEN in SOCIETY.

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:

MILITARY Branch of GOVERNMENT.

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URING the infancy of a nation, every member depends on his own industry for procuring the neceff. ries of life: he is his own mason, his own tailor, his own physician; and on himself he chiefly relies for offence as well as defence. Every favage can fay, what few beggars among us can say, Omnia mea mecum porto; and hence the aptitude VOL. II.

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