The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
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Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.Mercy Otis Warren
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
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The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.
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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
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The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
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