A history of the American nation . t;sr ^ 7 day, II 4 50 8 at noon. Facsimile of Part of a Page of Poor Richards Almanac stones Commentaries were sold in America as in England, andGeneral Gage wrote from Boston that the people in his govern-ment were either lawyers or smatterers in law. This study,says Burke, renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, promptin attack, ready in defense, full of resources. When GreatBritain determined to coerce Massachusetts, she arrayedagainst herself the most enlightened and intelligent populationon the face of the earth. * Familiar Letters of John Adams, p. 1
A history of the American nation . t;sr ^ 7 day, II 4 50 8 at noon. Facsimile of Part of a Page of Poor Richards Almanac stones Commentaries were sold in America as in England, andGeneral Gage wrote from Boston that the people in his govern-ment were either lawyers or smatterers in law. This study,says Burke, renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, promptin attack, ready in defense, full of resources. When GreatBritain determined to coerce Massachusetts, she arrayedagainst herself the most enlightened and intelligent populationon the face of the earth. * Familiar Letters of John Adams, p. 120. CONDITION OF THE COLONIES IN 1760 123 Politically New England was nearly a pure it was democratic in comparison with Europe or withthe colonies of the South. The New Englandvillage, with its wide street, its rows of com-fortable houses, and its big roomy yards, declaredmore plainly than words that no feudal system had ever laid itsburden on the people. And yet, though few had anything that Classes Tothe PUBLIC. THE FLYING MACHINE, kept byJohnMereeieau, At the New-Blazi^d-Star-F«ny,ncair 7«fcw-York, feti off from PowleaHooVereiy Mon*dajr, Weaneffll«r> aoid Friday Morninga. forphiUdelpKUiaiwlpoformaihe Journey in a Day and a Jfalf. for tKe8ummcrSe*ibp.,-rintheiftof Tfovemiberifioui-tJialTimeto |o twice a Week till tKe flrA of May, wKm iheyajidn. perform it tiiree Time* ^ Week. TVhen th* Stagesijc only twice a Week, iKey /eCoff Mond^s andTlunPdAya, The Waggons in Fhiladelpliia, kx. out frotn. theSi|n of the Gvor^^ in Second/Ireet, the lame Mbrhin^:TnePafl«n^er»ar««ie fired to croft the Ferry the Eveniiiibefore, a»tlie Sta^esmuft fetoiroariy the ncrtMamTnij;ThepricefbreAchPaflen^eriara/^TU^^i/i&nA, Proc awlGoods as Jtftttt, Paflengersgoing JVt of the W«^ to-w^inrrop«jrtion. As the Proprietor has nnacle fuch Imptovcrneats uponW»e Machines, one of which is iii TmiUtionof a Coach,he hopes to m«nt ttve Favoup of the Pablick. JOHN MEKCFR
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