It Is Not The Most Pleasant Employment

The Prodigious Waste Of Human Life Occasioned By This Perpetual Struggle For Room And Food, Was More Than Supplied By The Mighty Power Of Population, Acting, In Some Degree, Unshackled, From The Constant Habit Of Emigration.

The Great And Unlooked For Discoveries That Have Taken Place Of Late Years Have All Concurred To Lead Many Men Into The Opinion That We Were Touching On A Period Big With The Most Important Changes.

The Finest Minds Seem To Be Formed Rather By Efforts At Original Thinking, By Endeavours To Form New Combinations, And To Discover New Truths, Than By Passively Receiving The Impressions Of Other Men's Ideas.

No Move Towards The Extinction Of The Passion Between The Sexes Has Taken Place In The Five Or Six Thousand Years That The World Has Existed.

To Estimate The Value Of Newton's Discoveries, Or The Delight Communicated By Shakespeare And Milton, By The Price At Which Their Works Have Sold, Would Be But A Poor Measure Of The Degree In Which They Have Elevated And Enchanted Their Country; Nor Would It Be Less Grovelling And Incongruous To Estimate The Benefit Which The Country Has Derived From The Revolution Of 1688, By The Pay Of The Soldiers, And All Other Payments Concerned In Effecting It.