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 will include the landed Gentry, the beneficed Country Clergy, many of the more considerable Merchants and Men in Trade, the substantial and industrious Freeholders or Yeomen: A collective Body of Men, with all their incidental Failings, as different in Character from the Populace of any great City, as the Air of from that of  or.

 

T this famed Period, it is evident, that the Manners and Principles of the Nation did, upon the Whole, tend to the Establishment of Liberty; otherwise, Liberty had not been established. This Revolution was perhaps the noblest public Reform that ever was made in any State: And such a Reform, nothing but the 