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, or rather degraded to the Rank of Beats, by the Rod of Oppreion, might gradually acquire that Severity of Manners, and that Noblenes of Courage, which at lat rendered them the mot repectable People on the Face of the Earth. I hould therefore have ought out for my Country ome happy and peaceable Republic, whoe Origin was in ome meaure lot in the Night of Time; which had experienced no Shocks, but uch as were fit to manifet and trengthen in its Members their Patriotim and Courage; and where the Citizens, long accutomed to a prudent Independency, were not only free, but worthy of being o.