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Excerpt from A Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, on His Speech, July 10th, 1782, Respecting the Acknowledgement of American Independence
Thus far thefpeech on which I remark, -that his Lordfhip is a total {tranger to the mind and fentiments of America; that he has wrapped himfelf up in fond delu fion, that fomething lefs than Independence may, under his adminifiration, be accepted and he wiflres himfelf fent to Congrefs, to prove the molt extraordinary of all' doctrines, which is, that independence, the fublimefi of all human conditions, is Lofs of Liberty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.