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The sentiments of a British American

 
dc.contributor Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press
dc.contributor.author Thacher, Oxenbridge, 1719-1765
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dc.title The sentiments of a British American
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The Sentiments of a British American
by
Oxenbridge Thacher
from “Pamphlets of the American Revolution,” ed. by Bernard Bailyn
I — SENTIMENTS of a British American
IT WELL becomes the wisdom of a great nation, having been highly successful in their foreign wars and added a large extent of country to their dominions, to consider with a critical attention their internal state lest their prosperity should destroy them.
Great Britain at this day is arrived to an heighth of glory and wealth which no European nation hath ever reached since the decline of the Roman Empire. Everybody knows that it is not indebted to itself alone for this envied power: that its colonies, placed in a distant quarter of the earth, have had their share of efficiency in its late successes, as indeed they have also contributed to the advancing and increasing its grandeur from their very first beginnings.
In the forming and settling, therefore, the internal polity of the kingdom, these have reason to expect that
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