Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... If this discrimination of public and private character"' is not altended to by a British Jury, the foantain of universal liberty and happiness will be dried up by the rubbtsb ili. t power and personal interest have been lately in ulating to discharge into it with numberless prdsen ui s for libels, when the process and verdict have S 1-.'Mi'. That epoch will not, however, begin with lheS; _N Y in'(he present sovi reign, George III. wltose char--IS fin r is marked by that austerity, probity and prudence, coiig: trial to the British nation; and whose reign has N b n rendered happy. by studying the will of the people," %i Bft-.i thereto sacrificing his own, and by making his great--j S % est-v'rsoiial enemy bis confidential minister, if the wigdimi of the nation r-quired it.V v. 'fhe M-ess bas a most powerful influeme over society, 3 2 being the ine.tns'cpf-universal mental intercourse lor all . nia'i.Uiiiii. As the pebble thrown into the lake, agitates.X'3 ti. eeiiire with violence, and undulates tlie water to the V juosi iii taut shore: tto, from its throne of liberty estab- lis.ied in this island, the press directs its wonderful mirror. r, A cting from the sun of truth the bright rays of wisdom, and dispels the dreadful mists of error, that till tlw moral hemisphere with the darkness of ignorance, involving all the pestiferous vapors that infect and destroy tiiJ moral health and happiness of mankind. It is tins dire preponderance of passion over reason, ti-: -I this moment wiusis an.; eoiiiounds in august perg s ami splendid characters of ability, the future Iwij tif an anticipating ami r hViltng people. There is o in i levity, li.o.iglilltssnoss and dissipation in the on'., s ti lt an helcrogeuioas mixture of vice-and virtue, ..."
