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 their lives, when they left their country, became another nation, with deigns and propects, and interets, of their own. They looked back no more to their former home; they expected no help from thoe whom they had left behind; if they conquered, they conquered for themelves; if they were detroyed, they were not by any other power either lamented or revenged.

this kind eem to have been all the migrations of the early world, whether hitorical or fabulous, and of this kind were the eruptions of thoe nations which from the North invaded the Roman empire, and filled Europe with new overeignties.

when, by the gradual admiion of wier laws and gentler manners, ociety became more compacted and better regulated, it was found that the power of every